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VC516 Wallace Duffield Wright
BORN 20 September 1875
DIED 25 March 1953 AGE 77
VC Won 26 February 1903 AGE 27
Place VC Won Northern Nigeria
War/Campaign West Africa
Name Wallace Duffield Wright No.
VC Issue No. 516 Awards VC CB CMG DSO
Regiment Queen's Royal West Kent Regiment attached to the Northern Nigeria Regiment
Later
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Gibraltar
Place Of Death Westways Farm, Chobham, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 28 March 1953
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. St John's Avenue, Plot 9, Grave 215534 (Open RA 2271)
Gazetted 11 September 1903
VC Presented 5 November 1903, King Edward VII, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
By The Way…
He became a became a Conservative MP for Tavistock
VC Held By
Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum, Clandon Park, West Clandon, Guildford, Surrey, England
