The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant C P Wright

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Second Lieutenant Cyril Paul WRIGHT, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 55/2 Trench Mortar Battery), killed accidentally, 25th May 1916, age 24.

Born at Leagrave, Bedfordshire, son of Alfred and *(Harriet) Edith Wright, of The Nurseries, Rayleigh, Essex. *died 1892 June, Bedfordshire.

1893 June, Oxford Registration District, Alfred Wright, married Elizabeth Ann Barnes.

1911 Census - The Nurseries, Rayleigh, Essex - Alfred Wright, head, age 43, married, nurseryman, employer, born Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire; Elizabeth Ann Wright, wife, age 43, married 18 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Oxford, Oxfordshire; Cyril Paul Wright, son, age 19, single, nurseryman, worker, born Leagrave, Bedfordshire; Leonard George Wright, son, age 16, single, nurseryman, worker, born Leagrave, Bedfordshire; Ruth Annie Wright, daughter, age 14, school, born Leagrave, Bedfordshire; Elsie Barnes Wright, daughter, age 10, school, born Rayleigh, Essex; Margaret Christina Wright, daughter, age 5, born Rayleigh, Essex.

Posted Honourable Artillery Company, Service No.2497

15th January 1916, Commissioned.

23rd January 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, I. D. 9., France.

NOTE: Officers Died in the Great War shows date of death as 25th May 1916; CWGC web site show it as 25th June 1916 .

London Gazette 10th February 1916.

War Office, 10th February, 1916. REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned non-commissioned officers and men, from The London Regiment, Territorial Force, unless otherwise stated, to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 16th January, 1916.

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Private C. P. Wright, from Honourable Artillery Company.

London Gazette 2nd September 1916.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants to be transferred to the General List for duty with Trench Mortar Batteries -   29th April 1916 

C. P. Wright (since killed in action), from Royal West Kent Regiment.