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Gunner DESMOND THOMAS ERNEST WRIGHT

Service Number: 20941
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Artillery

7 Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 04 November 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

2. D. 32.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Wright and of Sophia Edith Wright (nee Whitson), of Auckland City, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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