Marine James Robert Wright, from Juliet Company, 42 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Nad 'Ali (North), was killed in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on Friday 5 August 2011. Marine Wright was wounded by a grenade which was fired into the checkpoint. He was extracted to the hospital at Camp Bastion where sadly, despite medical treatment, he later died of his wounds. [Photo from the MOD]
In Memory of Marine James Robert Wright
42 Commando, Royal Marines,
who died on the 5th August 2011 Afghanistan
Remembered with honour