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Captain WILLOUGHBY THORNTON WRIGLEY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Wiltshire Regiment

"C" Coy. 5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 August 1920

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

VIII. M. 1.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment serving as Asst. Political Officer, Shahraban
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. Dan and Matilda Florence Wrigley, of Hartburn Vicarage, Morpeth, Northumberland. Educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, entered for Keble College, Oxford. Enlisted Sept., 1914. Born at Nhill, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription WE PRAISE THEE O GOD
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