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Private JOHN ROBERT WRIGHT

Service Number: 10164
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 March 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

II. C. 18.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred Wright, of School St., Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT HIS FRIENDS MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2145
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