Service Details
Name:
 WRIGHT
Given Name:
 WILLIAM
Initials:
 W
Service No:
 6533
Rank:
 Company Sergeant Major
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 8th Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-06-07
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Age:
 41
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Ruth Wright, of Peterboro, England. Husband of Mary Elizabeth Gough (formerly Wright), of 36, Long St., Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. Born Freiston, Lincolnshire, England. A clerk with South African Railways
Commemoration
Country:
 Tanzania
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Cemetery:
 DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 7. H. 25.

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