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‘Semper fidelis’ –

A Tribute to a Commanding Officer

of BMH Dhekelia

Colonel David Wright, late Commanding Officer British Military Hospital Dhekelia

‘David Wright was a man of many parts who loved the Army though fundamentally he was an unassuming person

with a placid and shrewd nature and a quiet sense of humour. As a surgeon he was calm and confident and rich in

experience.’ 9

Colonel David Wright is the most senior serving officer to be buried in Dhekelia Military Cemetery,
his grave being in Plot 1, Row B. He was Commanding Officer of British Military Hospital Dhekelia

when he died suddenly at home at the age of 50, on 11 October 1962. He graduated in medicine from
Glasgow University in 1935, being commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps the same year. He

commenced training in surgery, and from 1941 to 1943 he was Officer in charge of the Surgical Division
of 24 Combined General Hospital. Thereafter he took up command appointments in Persia and Iraq, and

while in Italy with the 43rd Gurkha Lorried Infantry Brigade he was decorated with the Distinguished
Service Order. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948.

9 ‘Obituary – Colonel David Wright’ Army Medical Services Magazine, (January 1963), Vol. 15, p. 19.

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