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Personal info

Full name
WRIGHT, Francis Harold
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20108703
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
Koecking Woods, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 12 43

Immediate family

Members
Fredrick D. Wright (father)
Margaret (Welch) Wright (mother)
Fredrick D. Wright (brother)
Douglas H. Wright (brother)
Paul F. Wright (brother)

More information

Pfc Francis H. Wright attended high school for two years and was a carpenter before he joined the National Guard in Northampton, Massachusetts on 16 January 1941.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Harrison Family Tree / Massachusetts Birth Index, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division
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