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Colonel ERNEST OCTAVIUS WIGHT

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Medical Corps

49th (West Riding) Div. Asst. Director of Medical Services

Date of Death

Died 19 December 1915

Age 57 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FERME-OLIVIER CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row J. Grave 4.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Dr. Robert Wight, M.D., F.R.S., and the late Mrs. Wight, of Grazeley Lodge, Shinfield, West Reading; husband of Janet Wight of Merivale, Heston, Hounslow. Served in the ushai (Burma) Expedition of 1892, also had the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal for saving life from drowning.
  • Personal Inscription ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE JANET LESLIE 1866-1945
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