Reginald James Wallace (16 August 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a British Colonial Service administrator. Wallace served as the last colonial Governor of the
Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
from 1978 to 12 July 1979. The Gilbert Islands, which separated from the neighboring Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) in 1975, became the independent nation of Kiribati on 12 July 1979.
Wallace died on 10 December 2012 at the age of 93. He had been a resident of Gardiner's View,
Gibraltar
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