Stiles, Wallace Campbell

Title

Stiles, Wallace Campbell

Last Name

Stiles

First and Middle Name

Wallace Campbell

Biographical Text

Member of the Virginia Tech Planters Club, 1914

Nicknames or Other Names

Cutter

Hometown

Elliston, Virginia

County and/or State

Montgomery

Birth Date

1897

Birthplace

Elliston, Virginia

VPI Graduating Class

Class of 1916

Graduated

Yes

Service Branch

Army

Unit

Headquarters Company, 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Force

Rank

Lieutenant

Military Events

Journeyed through France and Germany (1918)

Other Events

Taught a summer school class, June 19 - August 16, 1917

Occupation

Instructor in Animal Husbandry at Virginia Tech Agricultural College (1917)

Contributing Researchers

Cameron Wills

Bibliography

  • Letter from Wallace Stiles to Dean Price, 14 November 1918, The Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, pg. 2.
  • http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RTD19160615.1.12# -- a digital copy of the Richmond Times - Dispatch that lists the 1916 Virginia Tech graduates Virginia Tech Bugle, 1914, 1917 Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Virginia with Accompanying Documents Letter from Lt. Stiles while overseas
  • Letter from Wallace Stiles published in The Virginia Tech campus newspaper on 9 January 1918
  • Photographs and information from family, in private family collection of Julia Milton

Files

Studio portrait of Wallace Stiles taken in March 1918.jpg
Wallace Stiles on left and unidentified soldier on right in postwar Germany, Rhine River behind riders.JPG
Captain Wallace Stiles picture from the 1919 War Bugle alongside his friend 1st Lt. George Cocke.jpg
Letter from Wallace Stiles, published in the Virginia Tech 14 November 1918.jpg
Letter from Wallace Stiles in The Virginia Tech newspaper, 9 January 1919.jpg
Third Division Headquarters Personnel photograph taken in Anderach, Germany in late 1918 - Wallace Stiles center marked by X.jpg
Portrait of Wallace Stiles taken in Germany, 1919.jpg
Portrait of Wallace Stiles taken in France.jpg
Portrit of Wallace Stiles in later life with his dog.jpg
Picture of Wallace Stiles with his dog returning from France in 1919.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Stiles, Wallace Campbell,” VPI in World War I, accessed March 5, 2025, https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/items/show/74.

Output Formats

Item Relations

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Comments (if you have information about a veteran or would like to talk about a veteran, also email the project director Daniel Newcomb at danieln1@vt.edu with your information or question)

Julia Milton

I am the great grandniece of Wallace Stiles and am in posession of many items and writings from his past. would they be of any interest to this project?

how would they be displayed and maintained?

thank you. Julia Milton

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