In Memory Of
WRIGHT, TREVOR DESMOND
Service Details
Age:
27
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
178439V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit 2:
seconded to No. 45 R.M. Commando. Royal Marines
Regiment:
South African Tank Corps
Date of Death:
1945-04-04
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in German operations
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
62. C. 14.
Cemetery:
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Localitly:
Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Country:
Germany
Additional Information
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."
Son of St. Clair C. and Frances F. Wright; husband of Joan Wright, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
