Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Allen Garnett Wright
In memory of:
Flying Officer Allen Garnett Wright
February 15, 1941
Military Service
42292
25
Air Force
Royal Air Force
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
HAIDAR PASHA CEMETERY
Turkey
Row A. Coll. grave 4-9.
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.
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