Charles Darcy WRIGHT

WRIGHT, Charles Darcy

Service Number: 363
Enlisted: 12 September 1914
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 9th Infantry Battalion
Born: Orsett, Essex, England, 1896
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: England
Occupation: Barman
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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World War 1 Service

12 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
24 Sep 1914: Involvement Private, 363, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914: Embarked Private, 363, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 19 and the son of Charles Thomas and Catherine Woodward Wright, of 17 Portland Avenue, Gravesend, England.

He was killed on the first day of the Gallipoli Landings.

He is commemorated on the Orsett War Memorial as D’Arcy Wright-he was born in Orsett.

Births Mar 1896   Wright Charles D'Arcy Orsett 4a 490