Service Details
Name:
 WRIGHT
Given Name:
 ROBERT CHARLES NOEL
Initials:
 R C N
Service No:
 98311V
Trade:
 Signals/Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-04
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KK302, 8 crew (1 RAF), after returning froma bombing raid on the Brescia marshalling yards in Northern Italy, Liberator collided with an RAF Wellington bomber KL355 from 70 Sqdn while circling Celone airfield to land
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert James and Emily Susan Margaret Wright. His brother also died on service
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BARI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XIII. B. 5.

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