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Private EDWARD WRIGHT

Service Number: 4345352
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1940

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 2. Row C. Grave 4.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Wright, of Warrington, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription COULD I HAVE HEARD HIS LAST FAREWELL THE BLOW MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN SO HARD. MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 283
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