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Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 26, 1908
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 1, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of E. Vaughan Wright and Mabel Wright of Ancaster, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
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Memorial scroll
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry memorial scroll for Dieppe. On display at the Lieutenant-Colonel John Weir Foote VC, CD Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Brookwood Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, August 21, 1942 -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, August 21, 1942. Llewellyn Counsell, a cousin of Lieutenant Wright, who is reported killed in this clipping, in fact survived the raid, and was wounded and taken prisoner. He died suddenly on May 30, 1947 and is commemorated at this web site. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, August 28, 1942. -
Inscription
Lieutenant IAN HAMILTON VAUGHAN WRIGHT is one of four members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Ian Hamilton Vaughan Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 126 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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