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Allen Garnett Wright

In memory of:

Flying Officer Allen Garnett Wright

February 15, 1941

Military Service


Service Number:

42292

Age:

25

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force

Division:

37 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Wilfred Hornsby and Kathleen Wright, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on the Flying Officer Allen Garnett Wright Plaque.

Commemorated on Page 605 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

Row A. Coll. grave 4-9.

Location:

Haidar Pasha is a suburb of Istanbul between Scutari (Uskudar) and Kadikoy on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorous. The Cemetery is on high ground behind the Haidar Pasha pier head and railway station. By ferry from the Golden Horn, Istanbul, take the ferry from Karakoy, near the Galata Bridge to Haidar Pasha pier head and railway station. Go around to the right (south) side if the main station building and follow the road east approximately 400 metres. Close to the mosque with twin minarets there are steps up to the Kadikoy Rimtimi Cad Road. Turn left (northwards) along this road (passing over the railway lines) approximately 700 metres at the traffic lights turn left down towards the entrance to the cemetery - just past the military hospital main gate. The Haidar Pasha Memorial and Haidar Pasha Cremation Memorial are within the boundaries of the cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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