Military service
Burial/memorial information
Brother of Major Gordon Brooks Wright, who died while serving with the Canadian Engineers.
Digital gallery of Major Joshua Stanley Wright
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Memorial
Lisgar Collegiate Honour Roll -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Commemorative Plaque
Memorial Plaque commemorating barristers and students, members of the Alberta law society, who died while serving in the First World War. -
Photo of Joshua Stanley Wright
Photo of Wright c1911 at the RMC pictured in his riding uniform. Photo courtesy of the RMC archive. -
Medals
The British War and Victory medals, Memorial Plaque and Memorial Cross attributed to Major Wright killed at the Somme in November 1916 -
Photo of Joshua Wright
Portrait photograph of Major Wright published in a Calgary newspaper; Dec. 1916 -
Vimy Monument
Major Joshua Stanley Wright 50th Bn CEP, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment).killed in action in France 18 Nov 1916 Vimy Memorial; Pas de Calais, France http://www.twgpp.org/information.php?id=1597172 His brother, Maj Gordon B. Wright DSO, RCE killed in action in France 21 May 1915; Hinges Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France http://www.twgpp.org/information.php?id=1853856 -
Plaque
On the 15th June 1924, the Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario was unveiled by Mrs. Joshua Wright, mother of two ex-cadets who gave their lives in the First World War, and was dedicated by the Rt-Rev Dr. Bidwell, Lord Bishop of Ontario. #558 Major Gordon Brooks Wright, DSO, RCE (RMC 1901) was killed in action in France on 21 May 1915. #814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright, 50th Bn CEF (RMC 1912) of the Canadian Infnatry (Alberta Regiment) was killed in action in France on 18 Nov 1916. -
Memorial Doll
On the 15th June 1924, the Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario was unveiled by Mrs. Joshua Wright, mother of two ex-cadets who gave their lives in the First World War, and was dedicated by the Rt-Rev Dr. Bidwell, Lord Bishop of Ontario. #558 Major Gordon Brooks Wright, DSO, RCE (RMC 1901) was killed in action in France on 21 May 1915. #814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright, 50th Bn CEF (RMC 1912) of the Canadian Infnatry (Alberta Regiment) was killed in action in France on 18 Nov 1916. -
Stained Glass Window
On the 15th June 1924, the Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario was unveiled by Mrs. Joshua Wright, mother of two ex-cadets who gave their lives in the First World War, and was dedicated by the Rt-Rev Dr. Bidwell, Lord Bishop of Ontario. #558 Major Gordon Brooks Wright, DSO, RCE (RMC 1901) was killed in action in France on 21 May 1915. #814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright, 50th Bn CEF (RMC 1912) of the Canadian Infnatry (Alberta Regiment) was killed in action in France on 18 Nov 1916. -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright (RMC 1911) served with the Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), 50th Bn. He died 18 Nov 1916. His name is listed on the Vimy Memorial in Pas de Calais, France. -
Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright (RMC 1911) served with the Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), 50th Bn. He died 18 Nov 1916. His name is listed on the Vimy Memorial in Pas de Calais, France. -
Cap Badge
814 Major Joshua Stanley Wright (RMC 1911) served with the Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), 50th Bn. He died 18 Nov 1916. His name is listed on the Vimy Memorial in Pas de Calais, France. -
Memorial
Memorial Staircase, Royal Military College of Canada -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of JOSHUA STANLEY WRIGHT
Major Joshua Stanley Wright (colourised from 50th Battalion Officers photo, 1915)
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Digital gallery of
Major Joshua Stanley Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 186 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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