Thomas Seller Wallace

Thomas Sellar Wallace
Born1896
Banffshire, Scotland
Died8 October 1935 (age 39)
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Buried
Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Canada
Service / branchBritish Army
Alberta Provincial Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Years of service1914-1918 British Army
1921-1932 Alberta Provincial Police
1932-1935 Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RankSerjeant (British Army)
Sergeant (RCMP)
Unit1/6 Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
Battles / warsWorld War I
Awards
Known forInvolvement in 1935 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Killings

Thomas Sellar Wallace, MM (1896 October 8, 1935) was a British-born Canadian police officer who was killed in the 1935 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Killings. On 8 October 1935, Wallace was shot in the chest by one of the fugitives in the incident on the outskirts of Banff, Alberta, succumbing to his wounds later that day. He had previously earned a distinguished service record in the British Army during World War I. He emigrated to Canada and joined the Alberta Provincial Police after the war in 1921, before it was amalgamated with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by 1932 and had been a law enforcement officer in Alberta for 14 years before his death.