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Private WILLIAM EDWARD WRIGHT

Service Number: 34917
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

2nd/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 September 1918

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, BOISLEUX-ST. MARC

II. A. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth and the late Samuel Wright, of Sharrington, Norfolk; husband of Rosabel J. Wright, of 245, Hawthorn Rd., Ashington, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, BOISLEUX-ST. MARC
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 420
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