Service Details
Name:
 WRIGHT
Given Name:
 TREVOR DESMOND
Initials:
 T D
Service No:
 178439V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Tank Corps
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Unit 2:
 seconded to No. 45 R.M. Commando. Royal Marines
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-04
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in German operations
Decorations:
 M M
Citations:
 LG Sup 13 August 1942 - "On 28 May 1942 South East of Knightsbridge while his Troop Leader was investigating an enemy column Tpr Wright together with Tpr Basset-Evans, attacked and enemy semi-tracked Armoured Troop Carrier and a gun truck while under intense shell fire. With great courage and determination he destroyed the Troop Carrier and captured the crew, enabling his Troop Leader to obtain the required information of the enemy column."
Additional
Information:
Son of St. Clair C. and Frances F. Wright; husband of Joan Wright, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Cemetery:
 REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 62. C. 14.

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