WRIGHT, Leo Arthur Philip

Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
'30 Commando Assault Unit'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PO/X 4108
Born: 
Friday, April 2, 1920
Birthplace: 
Canning Town, London
Died : 
Monday, June 12, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
24
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Corporal Leo Wright died during operations at Normandy, France, when anti personnel bombs were dropped from enemy aircraft. Son of Leo Arthur Phillip Wright and Elizabeth Wright, of Stratford, London.
  • Also killed were Lieutenant Ionides and Marine Bentley.  
Source
CWGC.
Registers of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/139.
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit, author Nicholas Rankin.)

 
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