Name
Noel Tracey Wright
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/10/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Yorkshire Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SAILLY-LABOURSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Row J, Grave 6.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Thomas' Cathedral War Memorial, Mumbai, India,
Tottenham Grammar School Roll of Honour,
London, University of London Roll of War Service, London
Pre War
Son of Tobias Theophilus and Emma Selina WRIGHT.
His parents married 21 October 18 at the M.E. Church, Baroda, Bombay. Tobias died 14 June 1925 at Ootacamund, India, aged 63; Emma possibly died 17 April 1941 aged 76, and was buried 18 April 1941 in Meerut, India.
Noel was born 21 December 1893 in Bombay, and baptised 26 August 1894 at Grant Road M.E. Church, Bombay. He was educated at John Conan School, Bombay, and University College, London, from where he matriculated June 1911. He returned to Bombay 4 October 1911 aboard the Hall Line Merton Hall from Birkenhead.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, he is assumed to be living in India. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 17, he lived in London N.E.
Wartime Service
He applied for a commission 4 August 1914 to the Yorkshire Regiment, previously a Cadet with the University of London O.T.C. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 17 December 1914, and died of wound
Additional Information
There are articles about Noel in the Watford Illustrated dated 23 October 1915 and 4 December 1915; also in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 23 October 1915.
His brother Eric died 13 March 1916.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
