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Gnr. Joseph Wright

British Army 261st Brigade Royal Field Artillery

from:Kilmarnock

(d.19th December 1917)

My Great Uncle Joseph Wright was a Gunner with the RFA in France and Egypt. He died of his wounds on 19th December 1917 and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery near Jerusalem.

Joseph was one of 15 children born to Robert and Margaret Wright,four of whom died aged 2years. Robert died aged 50 in 1904 and their son Henry died in 1916 of T.B. aged 21. Joseph married Jeanie McLeod in 1911 and sadly, she died giving birth to their daughter Jeanie in 1912.



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