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HARRY WRIGHT
BORN COTTINGHAM 1887. SON OF WILLIAM WALLACE WRIGHT (1862-1940) & CLARA SCOTT WRIGHT (1862-1925), OF KING STREET, COTTINGHAM (1901 CENSUS) AND 66, PULMAN STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, JOHN HENRY WRIGHT.
HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION 26/10/1917, AGED 30.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SHARED EVENLY BETWEEN WILLIAM DALBY, MARY E DALBY AND EVERLYN DALBY.
HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM & THE PULMAN STREET SHRINE, HULL.
HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, JOHN HENRY WRIGHT, 21725, 7TH EYR, DIED OF WOUNDS, AT GLASGOW HOSPITAL, ON 20/09/1918, AGED 27. HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS PARENTS HAD LOST BOTH CHILDREN IN THE WAR. THEY MOVED TO 57, KIRKHAM DIVE, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
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