Gordon T Wright (QM 1940-45)

Died March 2018

We have received the following notification of the death of Gordon Wright, from his nephew Andrew Craddock (1963-70):

I write to advise you of the death of my uncle at the age of 89. Gordon Wright was at Queen Mary’s from 1940 -1945. On leaving school Gordon joined the RAF and trained as a meteorologist based in Cambridge; he married his first wife Pauline and had his first son Tony there.

Thereafter he migrated to Sudan and worked in Khartoum in RAF bases there. He then got divorced and went to Nyasaland (now Malawi) to be the chief meteorologist at Blantyre Airport. He was a town councillor, a volunteer fireman and met his second wife Jane there, who was the nurse in charge of the surgical ward of Blantyre Hospital. They married at St Michaels Church in Blantyre.

They migrated to Rhodesia where Gordon did weather forecasts on the radio and television. Two other sons, David and James, were born there. Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia, they relocated to South Africa where Gordon worked for the South African government in meteorology for another 31 years before retiring.

He spent many happy years in retirement and wore his Old Marians’ tie, bought at Leonard Neasham’s, at many social functions with pride.

Andrew Craddock 1963-1970