Lt JM Wright
James Mitchell Wright
1943 secondees killed
- Rank
- 2nd Lt
- Later rank
- Lt
- 1943 voyage
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Sailed from Cape Town on the Rangitata in September 1943, and signed the group photograph taken in Montevideo on the way.
The story of the photograph
- Fate
- Killed in a flying accident, 16 January 1944
- In the book
- Pages 138
From the book
SAAF Airmen in RAF Squadrons
Those “contributions” carried a high price tag as 35 of the airmen on the “unofficial list” of 92 lost their lives between January 1944 and April 1945. The first, 20-year-old 2nd Lt James Mitchell Wright was killed in a January 1944 training accident, Lt FL Higgins, the last, lost his life in No 174 Squadron Typhoon in April 1945 and were among 23 airmen in the “Rangitata” group photograph who are thought to have lost their lives.