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
- Company D, 1st Pioneer Infantry at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina
- Transferred to Headquarters Company, 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Force
Rank
Lieutenant through Captain
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)
1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet
Yes
Contributing Researchers
Cameron Wills
Bibliography
- Letter from Wallace Stiles to Dean Price, 14 November 1918, The Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, pg. 2. (see file attached)
- Letter from Wallace Stiles published in The Virginia Tech campus newspaper on 9 January 1918 (see file attached)
- Photographs and information from family, in private family collection of Julia Milton, published on VPI in World War I with permission of family. (see files attached)
- "Summary of the Operations of Headquarters, Third Division, Office Division Remount Officer," 19 April 1919, written by Captain Wallace Stiles, document in private family collection, published on VPI in World War I with permission of family. (see files attached - scroll down to view this document in document viewer)
Files
Collection
Citation
“Stiles, Wallace Campbell,” VPI in World War I, accessed April 9, 2025, https://vpiworldwarone.lib.vt.edu/items/show/74.
Item Relations
| Item: Stiles, Hubert Newton | dcterms:relation | This Item |
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