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Military service
Service number:
A10255
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
February 2, 1884
Pakenham, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 10, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
July 29, 1916
Hill 60, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 3.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Robert Wright of Carleton Place, Ontario. Spouse of Maria Eliza Wright of Ottawa West, Ontario.
The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Wright by naming a street in his honour.
Digital gallery of Private William John Wright
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Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of William John Wright
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.
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Private William John Wright
Digital gallery of
Private William John Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 186 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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