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Military service
Service number:
H/6299
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 21, 1912
Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 13, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 19, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 25.
Additional information
Son of John Evans Wright and Maud Evelyn Wright.
Digital gallery of Private Roland Frederick Wright
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
Private ROLAND FREDERICK WRIGHT is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Rifleman ROLAND FREDERICK WRIGHT was reported Killed in Action in the Canadian Army¿s 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Photo of ROLAND FREDERICK WRIGHT
In memory of those who served in Hong Kong during World War 11 and did not come home. Submitted with permission on behalf of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association by Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ROLAND FREDERICK WRIGHT
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
Digital gallery of
Private Roland Frederick Wright
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 49 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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