Watty Wallace

George Walter Gordon Wallace (16 January 1900 - 12 October 1964) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

He was educated at the Mareeba and Chillagoe primary schools before joining the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916.

He had put his age up by two years in order to enlist and saw action in France and Belgium with the 7th and 21st Machine Gun Companies.

[1] On his return to Australia he joined the meat industry, working in both Cairns and Gordonvale as a slaughterman and butcher.

[2] He died in October 1964 and was buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery in Cairns.