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Lieutenant DOUGLAS PERCIVAL WRIGHT

Service Number: 138049
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 15 October 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (LIVERAMENTU) CEMETERY

1. P. 3.

Sri Lanka

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. King's African Rifles
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Wright and Alice Wright, of West End, Lincolnshire. B.A. (Lond.).
  • Personal Inscription O VALIANT HEART, WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (LIVERAMENTU) CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 621
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