In Memory Of
WRIGHT, WILLIAM CHARLES
Service Details
Age:
30
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Fourth Engineer Officer
Unit:
S.S. Kanbe (Glasgow)
Regiment:
Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
1943-05-08
Cause of Death:
Whilst operating with Convoy TS-38. Torpedoed and sunk by U-123 off Liberian Coast. En route Alexandria & Takoradi for Freetown & UK
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 59.
Cemetery:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Beatrice Jane Wright. Born Benoni, Transvaal. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945
