Ivo Robert WRIGHT

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Service Number:	1801
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Warracknabeal, Victoria, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Wickepin, Wickepin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 9 April 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot V11, row H, grave 7, Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernancourt, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Wickepin District Roll of Honor, Wickepin District Roll of Honour WWI, Wickepin Fallen Soldiers Memorial

23 Jul 1915:	Involvement Private, 1801, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
23 Jul 1915:	Embarked Private, 1801, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Fremantle
9 Apr 1918:	Involvement Corporal, 1801, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1801 awm_unit: 28 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-09

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Ivo Robert WRIGHT was born in 1896 in Warracknabel, Victoria

His parents were John Armstrong WRIGHT and Josine Bessie INGHAM

His next of kin was listed as his Mother who was living in Glengarrie, Wickepin, Western Australia at the time

He enlisted on 24th June, 1915 with the 28th Battalion

Unit embarked from Fremantle, W.A. on HMAT Demosthenes

Ivo was Killed in Action on 9th April, 1918 and is buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France