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John Edmund Wright

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John Edmund Wright

Birth
Death
25 Oct 1944 (aged 32)
Burial
Nichols, Tioga County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.0240453, Longitude: -76.3867526
Memorial ID
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A memorial that is said to be at Nichols Cemetery which reads:

"In memory of Flight Officer John Edmund Wright 89TC Sq. 438 T.C.C. Buried U.S. Army cemetery, Cambridge, England 1912 - 1944"

on Wait, Wright , Hedley lot.

John Edmund Wright's actual burial in England is at this URL link.

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John E. Wright is the son of Alvah 'Alvin' Wright and his wife Delphine 'Della' Wait. John attended the Nichols public schools, then Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, VA, and Cornell University. At Cornell he became involved in the reserve officer's training corps. He worked at IBM for a number of years, but when the United States joined the war, he enlisted in the Air Corps. On December 5, 1942, he married Miss Jean I Love. They had one son. John was killed in a tragic air crash in England while serving his country, having met his son only briefly.

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A memorial that is said to be at Nichols Cemetery which reads:

"In memory of Flight Officer John Edmund Wright 89TC Sq. 438 T.C.C. Buried U.S. Army cemetery, Cambridge, England 1912 - 1944"

on Wait, Wright , Hedley lot.

John Edmund Wright's actual burial in England is at this URL link.

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John E. Wright is the son of Alvah 'Alvin' Wright and his wife Delphine 'Della' Wait. John attended the Nichols public schools, then Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, VA, and Cornell University. At Cornell he became involved in the reserve officer's training corps. He worked at IBM for a number of years, but when the United States joined the war, he enlisted in the Air Corps. On December 5, 1942, he married Miss Jean I Love. They had one son. John was killed in a tragic air crash in England while serving his country, having met his son only briefly.

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