Cecil Arthur Sayer Wright

A Corporal with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Cecil died on 2nd of November 1943 aged 34. 

Cecil was born at Blundeston on 16 September 1909, a son of Arthur James and Maud Ethel Wright. Cecil's father was killed in action in 1917 whilst serving with the Suffolk Regiment.

By 1921 Cecil's mother had remarried and the family lived at 16 Worthing Road, Lowestoft.

On 29 August 1935 Cecil married Mabel Mary Freestone at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft. Cecil was a hairdresser living at 16 Worthing Road, and Mabel lived at 20 Milton Road. By 1939 they lived at 7 Bevan Street and Cecil was a master hairdresser.

Cecil enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after August 1940. He was captured at Java on 8 March 1942. He died from bacillary dysentery and was buried at Batoedoea (Liang) Cemetery. In 1946 he was reburied at Galala War Cemetery (now Ambon War Cemetery).  

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass

Cecil's niece, Barbara Wright, died during the Waller Raid.