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Military service
Service number:
R/73309
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
149 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
May 26, 1920
Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
November 12, 1940
Moncton, New Brunswick
Death:
November 30, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave VI. E. 1-10.
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Memorial Cross
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell WRIGHT (R/73309) was the Air Gunner aboard Stirling bomber R9202 of 149 (RAF) Squadron that was lost over Italy - all other crew were RAF / RNZAF
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Mitchell Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 126 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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