Person    | Female  Died 17/9/1940

Dorothy Wright

Categories: Tragedy

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Dorothy Wright

Killed in the Camberwell Green air-raid, aged 19.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Dorothy Wright

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