JOSHUA WILLIAM WRIGHT

Born

On 22 June 1919 at Riana.

Connection to South Riana

Lived in South Riana.

Parents

Harold Thomas WRIGHT and Margaret PARSONAGE who were married at Penguin on 24 December 1912.

Siblings

Harold James 1913

Peter Aubrey 1915

Annie Lillian 1917 – 2000

Kathleen Mary 1922 – 1999

Madge 1925 –

Ivy 1926

Eunice 1927

Married

Not known

Family

Not known

Died

1978 in Hampton, Victoria.

School Records

Not known

Military Records

Service number TX3910 of the 2/40 Battalion.  He enlisted in Smithton on 21 July 1940.   He was a single, casual labourer aged 21 from Smithton, 5’ 4 “, with grey eyes and brown hair. His next of kin was named as Thomas Wright, his father.

In October 1940 he was admitted to Vaucluse Hospital with mumps and in November was hospitaized again with Varicose Veins. In early 1941 he was transferred from Brighton to Bonegilla in Victoria per SS Zealandia, then was transferred to Caulfield a month later. He was discharged in February 1941 as being ‘medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own default’ – he had been diagnosed with flat feet. His total service was 215 days.

 Military photograph courtesy of Lionel Wright.