Jean Dibby Wright
Service number
2002675
Military unit
Unknown Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Address
19 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh.
Date of birth
Date of death
08 Feb 1942 (16 years old)
Place of birth
Portaferry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
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Family history
Daughter of William Grant Wright and Mary Victoria Wright, of Portaferry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Aged 16, listed age as 17 on documentation.
Military history
Died at Newark General Hospital of Tuberculous Meningitis caused by Miliary Tuberculosis Lung. Served 5 Group Bomber Command, RAF Syerston. Cremated at Nottingham Crematorium on 11 February 1942.
The applicant was by William R.G. Wright who lived at 19 Mayfield Terrace, Edinburgh and in the Crematorium records it is noted that ‘her ashes were taken away for burial at Victoria Falls in Canada’.
Victoria Falls are located in Zimbabwe but there is a Victoria Park in Canada at the Niagara Falls and she may have been buried there.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Photo of Jean Dibby Wright