Date of death:

November 2nd, 1944 (Between Boxtel - Esch, Noord Brabant)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Uden
Plot: 6. Row: H. Grave: 5.

Service number:

1133683

Nationality:

British

Gunner John Joseph Kenneth Wright
5th Regt., Royal Horse Artillery
He drove a vehicle into a mine during a reconnaissance mission in the Boxtel-Esch area during Operation 'Colin' and was seriously injured.
He succumbed to his injuries in a military hospital at Huize De La Salle in Boxtel.
He was temporarily buried, along with twelve other fallen soldiers, in a field grave on the grounds of this hospital on the 's-Hertogenbosch-Eindhoven highway.
He was reburied on September 5, 1946, at the British War Cemetery in Uden.

Archive A. Verbakel / Heemkundekring Uden

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