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WRIGHT, George Edwin

Service Number:	5241
Enlisted:	9 December 1915, Bendigo, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 8 December 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo East Bendigo School Memorial Plaques, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

9 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5241, 6th Infantry Battalion, Bendigo, Vic.
1 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 5241, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
1 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 5241, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Melbourne
8 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5241, 6th Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Brother:5242 Pte Thomas Stanley WRIGHT MM, 6th Bn, returned to Australia, 5 September 1919.