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SON DIEPPE PRISONER SECOND NOW MISSING
Pilot Officer J. A, Wright
Reported Lost over Germany, August 28
LONG BRANCH YOUTH
Long Branch, Oct 8. Mr. And Mrs J. A. Wright, 33rd St., have been notified that their son, Pilot Officer J. Allister Wright, has been reported missing following air operations over Germany on Aug. 28. Another son, Sapper Jack Edwin Wright, was reported a prisoner of war following the Dieppe raid.
Pilot Officer Wright, 23, was born in Lindsay. He attended public and high school there, and worked in a mine before enlisting as a pilot with the R.C.A.F. in February, 1941.
An ear infection during the last few weeks of his pilot’s training caused him to be grounded. He was then posted at Trenton for four months, following which he took an air-gunners’ course and graduated at the top of his class at Lethbridge. He received his commission on graduating, and went overseas early this year.
PILOT OFFICER LISTED MISSING
J. A. Wright Second Brother in Casualties
The R.C.A.F. casualty list last night included the name of Pilot Officer James Allister Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wright of 24 33rd Street, Long Branch, and he was the second of three soldier brothers whose name has appeared in casualty lists, within the last three weeks. Pilot Officer Wright has been missing since air operations over Germany late August, and his brother, Sapper Jack Edwin Wright, of the Royal Canadian Engineers, has been reported as a prisoner of war, following the raid on Dieppe.
Pilot Officer Wright, who is 23 years of age, was born in Lindsay and attended School there. He worked as a miner in Kirkland Lake for a couple of years before enlisting with the R.C.A.F. at North Bay in January 1941. He trained at Manning Depot, Jarvis, Eglinton, Windsor and Hagersville, but after more than 100 hours in the air was grounded because of an ear infection.
He was then posted at Trenton for four month , following which he took an air gunner’s course at Lethbridge, graduating at the head of his class and being awarded a commission in December last year. He went overseas in February, and in his last letter home, late in July, he stated he was being posted to an R.C.A.F. bombing squadron. He was reported missing several weeks later.
In addition to his brother, who is a prisoner, he has another, Murray A. Who is a member of the R.C.A.M.C. band at Camp Borden. Pilot Officer Wright was one of the first members of the Lindsay Boys’ Band, being a cornet player. His parents and three sisters reside in Long Branch.
Word has been received that Pilot Officer Allister Wright son of Mr. And Mrs James Wright, of Long Branch, formerly of Lindsay is now officially “presumed dead” missing since a raid on Nuremberg Aug. 29th, 1942 and is now reported as having been buried 9 miles north of Nuremberg Allister took part in several raids Dieppe included but returned from Dieppe which was 10 days before the Nuremberg raid
A younger brother Jack of the Engineers Corps is a prisoner of war in Germany since Aug. 19, and cheerful letters are received from him saying that they are used fairly well. The youngest brother Murray is a member of the Medical Corps Band at Camp Borden.
