Name
George Arthur Wright
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/05/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3119
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. D. 35.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield War Memorial,
In Memoriam & Roll of Honour Book, Hatfield,
St Luke's Church Memorial, Hatfield,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
George was the son of Arthur and Priscilla Wright, of Hatfield, Herts. and born and born in Bermondsey, Surrey around c1893.
In the 1901 Census George was 8, living with his parents and siblings in Cavendish Road in the parish of St Peters, St. Albans. His father working as a road labourer. By 1911 George was working as a Gardener and living with his family at the County Surveyors Office, St Albans Road, Hatfield. His father although listed as a road labourer is also listed as caretaker for the offices.
Officially recorded as born in Bermondsey, Surrey and was living in Hatfield when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
His service record is badly damaged, but shows that he attested on 14th September 1914, age 19, at Hertford. His record shows that George sustained a gunshot wound to his shoulder on the 20th, while in action, and died of his wounds the next day in Boulogne Hospital.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of October 1914, in the second list of men mobilised from Hatfield, recorded: “Wright, George Arthur, County Council Offices, 1ST Herts Territorials.”
Awarded the 1914 Star with Clasp, British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Additional Information
The family memorial in St Luke’s churchyard bears the inscription:
In loving memory
George A. Wright died of wounds at Boulogne 1915
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Wright (Mother) County Council Office received an “In Memoriam & Roll of Honour Album”.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
