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Private Deverne Ellsmore Wright

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Korean War Monument

Citation(s);

1939-1945 Star
Atlantic Star
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
War Medal 1939-1945
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea
Canadian Korea Medal
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)

Military service

Service number: SG9436
Age: 27
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: 1st Battalion
Birth: June 27, 1924 Centreville, New Brunswick
Enlistment: February 25, 1949 Fredericton, New Brunswick
Death: November 15, 1951 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN)
Grave reference: Plot 20, Row 7, Grave 1197
Additional information

Son of Edgar and Ruby Wright of Centreville, New Brunswick. Husband of Mrs. Roberta (née Thomas) Wright of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Father of Thomas Paul, Dianne Evelyn Louise and Jewel Anita. Brother of Guy Merton, Stanley Allison, Mrs. Georgie (Gilbert) Barton. Mrs. Ruby Wright was a member of the Remembrance Association, Silver Cross Women of Canada, Wheat City Chapter, Brandon, Manitoba.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

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Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 80 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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