WRIGHT, George Albert
(Service number 7/2327)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 31/01/1893 | Place of Birth | Thorton Heath, England |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Empire Hotel, Waimate, Canterbury | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | |||
| Next of Kin | Mrs Maggie WRIGHT (mother), 7 salisbury Street, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 10th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, C Squadron | ||
| Date | 4 March 1916 | ||
| Transport | Willochra or Tofua | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Suez, Egypt | |
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Military Awards
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Death
| Date | *1961 | Age | 68 years |
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| Place of Death | Victoria, Australia | ||
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| New Zealand Memorials | |||
Biographical Notes
George Albert Wright was the son of James and Margaret (Maggie, née Elphick) Wright. He was baptised on 14 June 1897 at St Paul's Anglican, Thornton Heath, Surrey, along with a younger sister. George was at home with his family at Thornton Heath in 1901, and again in 1911 when, like his father, he was a gardener. Some time after, the family migrated to Australia. Trooper G. A. Wright, Waimate, was one of the recruits for the Tenth Reinforcements who left South Canterbury in mid November 1915 for Trentham Camp.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 August 2019]; Church of England Baptism record (ancestry.com.au) [16 August 2019]; Victoria, Australia, death index (ancestry.com.au) [16 August 2019]; 1901 & 1911 census returns (ancestry.com.au) [16 August 2019]; Timaru Herald, 13 November 1915 (Papers Past) [12 August 2019]
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