The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal T W Wright

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Lance Corporal Thomas Walter WRIGHT, G/6701, 2nd Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died as a Prisoner of War, at Angora, with  Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 7th September  1916, age 26.

Born Sevenoaks, Kent, son of John Walter and Eliza Wright, of 4, Taylor's Cottages, Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent.

1911 Census - 4, Taylor's Cottages, Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent. - John Walter Wright, head, age 53, widower, married 23 years, 5 children, 3 still alive, builders labourer, worker, born Ticehurst, Sussex, paralysis 47 y????; Catherine Daisy Wright, daughter, age 22, single, domestic servant, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent; Thomas Walter Wright, son, age 20, single, contractors carman, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent; George Charles Wright, son, age 15, single, Telegraph Messenger, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.

Buried  at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. Y. 15., Iraq.  Commemorated Sevenoaks War Memorial.