Egbert Wilfred (Bert) WRIGHT

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WRIGHT, Egbert Wilfred

Service Number:	676
Enlisted:	31 January 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	33rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, December 1884
Home Town:	Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	compositor (Messrs. Davies & Cannington, Limited, Federal Printing Works)
Died:	Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 20 January 1930, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-25.
Memorials:	Merewether Memorial Gates, Merewether St. Augustine's Anglican Church Great War Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 676, 9th Machine Gun Company
21 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 676, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
21 Jun 1917:	Embarked Private, 676, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne
1 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 676, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

93 years ago today, on the Tuesday of the 21st January 1930, Private Egbert Wilfred Wright, referred to as Bert, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-676), compositor (Messrs. Davies & Cannington, Limited, Federal Printing Works), from The Rectory, Ridge Street, Merewether, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. ANGLICAN 1-25. 17.

Not married.

No funeral notice.

Note – headstone inscription incorrectly states date of death 19th January, should be the 20th January 1930.
Born at Bourke, New South Wales on the ? ? 1884 to Canon (Merewether St. Augustine's Church) Edwin Henry and Elizabeth Agnes E Wright, Bert enlisted January 1917 with the 9th Australian Machine Gun Company at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 4.11.1917 (influenza), 22.10.1918 (pyrexia or fever), 13.1.1919 (fistula), 20.2.1919 (influenza).

Wounded in action 30.3.1918 (GSW left foot).

Embarked for England to hospital 3.2.1919.
Bert was invalided home on the 1st June 1919, being discharged on the 1st July 1919.

Mr. Wright’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates and the Merewether St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Older brother Edwin Marsden (born 27.1.1881, Bourke, N.S.W., business manager, Lieutenant, enlisted 8.3.1915, 29th Battalion, Died after Discharge - 2.8.1937, location unknown) also served 1st A.I.F.

Younger brother Eric Stanley (born 1892, Darlinghurst, N.S.W., bank clerk, enlisted 1.5.1915, 30th Battalion, Reg No-70, Prisoner of War, Battle of Fromelles, died 29.10.1972, Newcastle, N.S.W., Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance) also served 1st A.I.F.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

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