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Lance Corporal JOHN HENRY WRIGHT

Service Number: 4979403
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1941

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY

3. C. 1.

Cyprus

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Henry and Florence Mary Wright, of Great Ponton Heath, Lincolnshire.
  • Personal Inscription SWEETEST OF MEMORIES FOND AND TRUE. MAM, DAD, BROTHERS AND SISTERS

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Buried or commemorated at

NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY
Cyprus
Number of casualties: 219
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