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Private GEORGE HENRY WRIGHT

Service Number: 6573
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 November 1914

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I. B. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Jane Wright, of 20, High St., Penarth, nr. Cardiff; husband of Ada Emily Wright, of Monastery Bakery, Llancarfan, Cowbridge, Glam.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THE NOBLEST DEATH A MAN CAN DIE FIGHTING FOR GOD & RIGHT & LIBERTY
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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