Cpl. Robert Ernest 'Bob' Wright

Reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St. Nazaire, France, later found to be wounded and a prisoner of war. Embarked for the raid on HMS Campbeltown. Bob Wright later wrote the words "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear" into his copy of the book Storming St. Nazaire written by James Dorrian.

Rank: Corporal
Unit/Base: 12 Commando
Regiment/Corps: Royal Engineers
Army Number: 2009393
P.O.W. number: 18760
P.O.W. camps: Stalag 8B (Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Operations: 'St. Nazaire - Operation Chariot'
[Image] Paul Stratford (great nephew).