Percy Watson Wright (1903 - 1985)

Born 23 Aug 1903 in Auckland, New Zealand

Ancestors

Son of Henry Cecil Wright and Florence Maud Simpson

Husband of Dorothy Eileen (Honeyfield) Wright — married 19 Mar 1931 in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1985 at age 81 in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

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Biography

Percy was born in 1903. He was the son of Henry Wright and Flora Simpson.

Percy was a Major in WWII with the 2nd NZEF Machine Gun Battalion.^[1] During the war, he was a prisoner in Germany from 1942^[2] to 1945.^[3]

He passed away in 1985. His ashes were buried in Pyes Pa Cemetery.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK17-LJQV : 7 December 2015), P.W. Wright, died 10 Jul 1985; citing BillionGraves (https://billiongraves.com/grave/PW-Wright/16938355), Burial at Pyes Pa Cemetery, Pyes Pa, North Island, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand.
2. ↑ Missing - Believed Prisoner of War, Evening Post, 29 January 1942, Page 9 , digital copy at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19420129.2.102 [accessed 25 February 2019]
3. ↑ N.Z. Prisoners Freed, Press, 6 April 1945, Page 4, digital copy at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19450406.2.34 [accessed 25 February 2019]

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Charlene Newport and AH, her 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Henry Wright and Florence Simpson, the great great grandparents of Charlene Newport and great grandparents of AH. Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: 1st cousin twice removed - 2nd cousin twice removed, based on sharing 121.1 cM across 8 segments.