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Private JAMES WRIGHT

Service Number: 2753389
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MERIGNIES CHURCHYARD

Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Donald and Margaret McKiddie McDonald Wright; husband of Helen Blakeley Wright.
  • Personal Inscription YOU LIE IN A FOREIGN LAND BUT AS LONG AS LIFE AND MEMORY LAST I WILL REMEMBER THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

MERIGNIES CHURCHYARD
Nord France
Number of casualties: 12
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