Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Harold Redfern Wright
In memory of:
Warrant Officer Class II Harold Redfern Wright
December 4, 1943
Military Service
R/153606
21
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
78 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Additional Information
September 12, 1922
Son of Walter Faraday Wright and Wilma Ferguson Redfern Wright, of Toronto, Ontario.
Commemorated on Page 228 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Germany
18. F. 4.
Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Memorial – Warrant Officer Class II Harold Redfern Wright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Warrant Officer Class II Harold Redfern Wright is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Memorial Plaque – This outdoor plaque is located at the “Old Vic” building, part of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. The decorative motif at the top shows the Victoria University crest, with motto in Latin: “ABEUNT STUDIA IN MORES”. The plaque is inscribed: “THEY WERE VALIANT IN LIFE TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE STUDENTS OF THIS COLLEGE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1939-1945. THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THE BOARD OF REGENTS AND DEDICATED OCTOBER 13TH, 1953”. There are 79 names inscribed in bas relief. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations, University of Toronto. -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram December 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Owen Sound Sun Time January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Harold Redfern Wright – R153606 Warrant Officer Harold R. Wright Former student of Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute (Toronto) -
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Document – Highschool registration card submitted by Harold Wright when he entered Lawrence Park Collegiate in September of 1936, the year it opened. He graduated in 1941 and was killed two years later in 1943. The comments on the card's bottom are by the office staff of the school. -
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Record Sheet – Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Document – Final Graves Registration Form showing the location of the crew in the CWGC Cemetery. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Letter – Letter to Mr. Ralph Lewis at Lawrence Park Collegiate. He was the school archivist during the war years. He kept track of all the students who joined the Armed Forces and were killed. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Document – The RAF Missing Enquiry and Search Unit report to RAF HQ. The searched all of Europe after the was looking for dead aircrew. If you check Wright's service record you will see that he was transferred to their record section on his presumption of death. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Document – Post presumption of Death Memorandum describes the final outcome of the search for Wright. (He is positively identifed and declared officially dead. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Record of Service (page 1) – It shows that he is an Air Bomber and that his records have be sent back to Canada on his disappearance. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Record of Service (page 2) – RCAF Record of Service shows that he was SOS (Struck Off the Strength of the squadron and TOS Missing Aircrew. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Record of Service (page 3) – RCAF Record of Service shows general information about him. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada -
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Record of Service (page 4) – RCAF Record of Service shows his postings for training and operations as well as leaves etc. Source: Whitehouse via Library & Archives Canada
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