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Pte. John George Wright
British Army 57th Combined Stationary Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Jarrow
(d.20th Jul 1917)
John George Wright enlisted at Jarrow and served in the 57th Combined Stationary Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps. He died age 24 on the 20th July 1917 and is remembered at Jarrow Library, St. Mark's Church and is buried in Basra War Cemetery. John must have been attached to one of the units which went to Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1917. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals.
John was born in Jarrow 1890, son of the late George Chapman Wright and Annie Wright nee Bruton of 25 York Street, Jarrow.