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Major George James Wright (Service Nos:Q963/QX40784) served in the Militia from 6 October 1925, and was a Major attached to 5 Division Signals on 10 March 1941 when he was called up for Full Time Duty (FTD) with the ACMF. On 16 July 1942 Major Wright volunteered with the AIF, and was attached to 5 Division Signals in November that year when he was placed on the Regimental Supernumerary List (RSL). On 18 January 1943, Major Wright was transferred from the RSL to the R of O (Signals).

George was born in Brisbane, QLD in 1904, eldest of five children of George Gardiner Wright (b1880 in Brisbane, QLD) and Eva Alice Moorhouse (b1878 in Middlesex, England) - Eva immigrated in 1887, arriving in Brisbane with her parents and siblings on board the Dacca. George Snr started work as a Junior Assistant Telegraph Operator with the Government Printing Office, and was Assistant Telegraph Officer in 1903 when he and Eva married in Brisbane. The couple settled in Brisbane, where they raised their family and George Snr worked as a Clerk and then Accountant for the Postmaster General's Department. In 1920 George Snr established a partnership with TC Kerr MLA as Chartered Accountants. Renowned as a Tax Expert, George Snr was Secretary of the QLD Tax Agents' Assoociation, appointed Auditor for the City of Brisbane, and was a Freemason - past master of the Fernberg Lodge and a Royal Arch First Principal.

George started work in 1920 with the Postmaster General's Department - initially as a Cadet Mechanic and then as a Mechanic. In 1925 in Brisbane, George married Ethel Helena Bowness Jessie (b1896 in Brisbane, QLD) - Ethel was working as a Boot Machinist. By the mid 1930s George and Ethel had divorced (Ethel remarried), and George resigned from the Public Service and established himself as a Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer in Brisbane. Following his Discharge from the Army, George settled in Brisbane, where he was an Accountant. George died in 1987.