Charles Brian Berry Wallis

Charles Brian Berry Wallis was a regular Royal Air Force officer, the son of John Dunstane Wallis and Eileen Wallis of Shankill, Co. Dublin. Holding the relatively early service number 37236, he had been commissioned in the mid-1930s and earned the Air Force Medal for skilled flying before the war, later rising to the rank of Wing Commander. By 1942 he was serving in the South-East Asia theatre with No. 60 Squadron, which had reformed and was flying Bristol Blenheim Mk IV light bombers in attacks on Japanese positions in Burma. For his leadership and operations against the enemy he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, announced in the London Gazette of 19 January 1943 (Issue 35873). Wing Commander Wallis was killed on 24 July 1942, aged 31, lost in Blenheim IV Z7647. He is buried in Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, India, in Plot H, Grave 54, his headstone bearing the inscription “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”