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 William Francis George and Beatrice Jane (nee Hibberd) Wright. Husband of Kathleen Alice (nee Leighton) Wright. Born Benoni, Transvaal. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-1945
