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Surname: WRIGHT
Forename(s): Harold
Place of Birth: Billington, Lancashire
Service No: 26434
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 'C' Coy 2nd Battalion
Division: 8th Division
Age: 23
Date of Death: 1918-04-02
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 42 and 43.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Harold Wright was the son of Henry Tatham and Annie Caroline Wright, née Hawk. Henry was born at Gisburn, Yorkshire and Annie at Sydenham, Kent. Harold was the cousin of Private Harry Ellis (681114) (q.v.).
1901 Accrington, Lancashire Census: 116, Willow Lane - Harold Wright, aged 5 years, born Billington, Lancashire, son of Henry Tathom [sic] and Annie Caroline Wright.
1911 Accrington, Lancashire Census: 6, Chester Street - Harold Wright, aged 15 years, born Billington, Lancashire, son of Henry Tatham and Annie Caroline Wright.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Wright, 26434, E. Lan. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harold Wright, 26434, 2nd East Lancs.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harold Wright, 26434, 2 Bn East Lancs. Date and Place of Death: 22.3.18 - 2.4.18 in Action France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Henry T. £18 9s. 4d.
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: East Lancashire Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 8th Division
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10 May 1918
GISBURNE
Private J. Boynton, of the Royal Warwicks, for many years gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, is officially reported missing and believed wounded since the 21st of March. His wife is a daughter of Mr. Gornal, an old estate worker, who has already lost a son in France. Mrs. Ellis, of the Old Vicarage, who has also lost a son in the war, received news last week of the death in action of her nephew, Private Harold Wright, son of Mr. Harry Wright, of Accrington, a boy who was very well known in the village. – Regimental-Sergeant-Major Fox is home on leave from his training camp at Longmoor, and Gunner Charles Waller is home from Gosport on short leave.
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10 May 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Gisburn Casualties
Pte. J. Boynton, of the Royal Warwicks, and of Gisburn, for many years gardener to Lord Ribblesdale, is officially reported missing and believed wounded since March 21st. His wife is a daughter of Mr. Gornall, an old estate worker, who had already lost a son in France. Mrs. Ellis, of the Old Vicarage, who has also lost a son in the war, received news last week of the death in action of her nephew, Pte. Harold Wright, son of Mr. Harry Wright, of Accrington, a boy who was very well known in the village.
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