David joined the Army in 1940 and was commissioned into the Green Howards and for two years was on the staff of a Brigade Headquarters in the Northern Command. He was then posted abroad, serving first in Palestine and then Cairo as a staff officer with the rank of Major.

A keen and fearless rider and a good judge of horses, David played polo with conspicuous success. He was to meet a most untimely death on the polo field at Cairo on Thursday 28^th February 1946 at the age of 29. David is one of two OWs to be buried in Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo.

Son of Ernest Edward Wright & Dora Margaret Wright of Whitchurch, Shropshire.

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See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
Major David Henry WRIGHT