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Sapper JOHN JOSEPH WRIGHT

Service Number: 59686
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

56th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1916

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Plot 2. Row A. Grave 116.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Mrs. L. R. Wright, of 30, Crown Street, Harrow. Middlesex.
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Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 916
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