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Military service
Age:
42
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
November 14, 1874
Harrington, Oxford Co., Ontario
Enlistment:
May 5, 1916
Stratford, Ontario
Death:
August 18, 1917
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 38.
Additional information
Husband of Mary Edith Wright, of St Marys, Ontario. Graduate of Toronto University and Principal of St Marys Collegiate.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
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Photo of William Jonathan Wright
Lt WJ Wright Lt Wright is commemorated on the St Marys Memorial at Town Hall on Queen Street East, St Marys, Ontario and on a bronze plaque in the St Marys and District Collegiate on James Street South in St Marys. -
Roll of Honour
University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918, 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of William Wright
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
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Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Jonathan Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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