Herbert Wright
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Herbert Wright was born 15/10/1918 the son of Charles (1892), a farm carter and Ada (1895) Wright. In 1939, they lived at Glen Holme, Main Street, Papplewick, Nottinghamshire along with Charles and Ada’s daughter Jessie. In 1941, Herbert married Emily (Bette) Judson, a hosiery cutter also a resident of Main Street, Papplewick. During the summer of 1949, Emily married Archie Tyler.
Army Records British Army Casualties List. Expeditionary Forces: North Africa (contd.) Italy (cont.d). Missing believed Prisoner of War. Sherwood Foresters. 4978490 Wright Pte H. Date of Missing/Casualty 14 March 1944 British Army Casualties List. Expeditionary Forces: North Africa (contd.) Italy (cont.d).Previously reported Missing believed Prisoner of War now reported Prisoner of War in German Hands (Contd.). Sherwood Foresters. 4978490 Wright Pte H. Prev. list 1426. Date of Missing/Casualty 29 February 1944 British Army Casualties List. POW: previously reported POW in German Hands (Germany) now reported Killed in Action. Sherwood Foresters: 4978490 Wright (DOD 20 April 1945) Previous theatre: CM Italy POW 1715-1945. 4978490 Private Wright H. Sherwood Foresters. Country Poland
CWGC Reference 2103614 Durnbach War Cemetery Grave Reference: Plot 3 Row J Grave 3 The site for Durnbach War Cemetery was chosen, shortly after hostilities had ceased, by officers of the British Army and Air Force, in conjunction with officers of the American Occupation Forces in whose zone Durnbach lay. The great majority of those buried here are airmen shot down over Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Austria, Hessen and Thuringia, brought from their scattered graves by the Army Graves Service. The remainder are men who were killed while escaping from prisoner of war camps in the same areas, or who died towards the end of the War on forced marches from the camps to more remote areas. DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY contains 2,934 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 93 of which are unidentified. One grave in the cemetery (III. C. 22.) contains the ashes of an unknown number of unidentified war casualties recovered from Flossenburg. Also, one grave (IV. A. 21.) contains the remains of 6 unidentified U.K. airmen. There are also 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish. Within the Indian section of the cemetery will be found the DURNBACH CREMATION MEMORIAL, commemorating 23 servicemen of the army of undivided India who died while prisoners of war in various places in France and Germany, and who were cremated in accordance with their religion.
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