Name
Harry James Wright
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/2693
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
2nd/9th (T.F.) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY
II. L. 213
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey. Oxhey, Herts, War Memorial.
Pre War
Harry James Wright was born in
Foxearth, Essex, in 1894, son of Harry Wright, a Thatcher, and Emma Wright, (nee
Honeywood). One of five children, Florence (B 1892), George (B 1896), Stanley
(B 1899) and Francis (B 1901).
1901 Census records Harry aged 7,
living with his parents and four siblings in Belchamp St Paul, Essex.
1911 Census records Harry aged 17,
employed as a Farm Labourer, living with his parents, and three siblings in
Belchamp St Paul, Clare, Suffolk.
Sometime between 1911 and 1914 Harry
moves to Bushey in Hertfordshire, as his service record gives his home address
as 92 Pinner Road, Bushey, Herts.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted on 12th
November 1914, at Pound Lane, Willesden Green, London, for four years’ service
in the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, T. F. with the service
number TF/2693. He was aged 21, and gave his address as 92 Pinner Road, Bushey,
Herts. He served at home until July 1915, when he embarked with the M.E.F. for
Gallipoli, aboard H.M. T.S. Huntsgreen, Departing from Devonport on 18th
July 1915. Harry died of Dysentery aboard H.M. H.S. Valdivia on 6th September
1915.
He is in the CWGC East Mudros Cemetery, in Greece. Grave Ref: II. L. 213. He is commemorated at St Matthews Church,
Oxhey.
All four brothers served their
country in the Army, his three brothers all survived the war.
Additional Information
His mother was awarded a Dependents Pension of 7/6 a week. The value of his effects were £2-10s-2d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which went to his mother Emma. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
