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Military service
Service number:
1717
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
May 11, 1886
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Digital gallery of Private George Wright
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Inscription on Menin Gate
Inscription on the Menin Gate, August 2012, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Menin Gate
Menin Gate, October 2009, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Panel 10 Menin Gate
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate, August 2012, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Press Clipping
Pte. George Wright is in the middle row of this photograph. Sgt. Thomas Patten, in this photo, also died on May 8th, 1915. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
Digital gallery of
Private George Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 42 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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