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Military service
Service number:
451160
Age:
30
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
August 1, 1885
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3. B. 25.
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
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Gravemarker
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Listed as an UNKNOWN
Company Sergeant Dudley Gordon Wright was initially listed as an UNKNOWN for the Menin Gate Memorial. His remains were recovered on 3 January 1927 and buried in Plot 3 Row B Grave 25 at the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. Volume 1 of Norm Christie's Book "Sacred Places" (page 187) shows that the renaming of the UNKNOWN was made in 1992 when Norm Christie was the CWGC Chief Records Officer. -
Listed as an UNKNOWN
Company Sergeant Dudley Gordon Wright was initially listed as an UNKNOWN for the Menin Gate Memorial, as shown by this form. His identity was discovered by Norm Christie in 1992 and a new headstone was erected in the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. -
Photo of Dudley Wright
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Dudley Gordon Wright
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