The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J S Wright

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Private John Stanley WRIGHT, G/6089, 1st Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, reported missing after the fighting on 22nd July 1916, and it now assumed to have been killed in action, on that date, France.

Born 18th March 1882, Stowmarket, Suffolk, son of John Wright, (labourer),  & Ellen Wright, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent.

Educated Stowmarket, Suffolk.

1911 Census - 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent - John Wright, head, age 62, married, labourer, Cement Works, worker, born Battisford, Suffolk; Ellen Wright, wife, age 49, married 30 years, 14 children, 13 still alive, born Stowmarket, Suffolk; Walter Sidney Wright, son, age 23, single, labourer, Cement Works, worker, born Swanscombe, Kent; Harry Edwin Wright, son, age 21, single, labourer, Cement Works, worker, born Swanscombe, Kent; Fred Wright, son, age 14, school, born Northfleet, Kent; Percy Wright, son, age 12, school, born Northfleet, Kent; Ida May Wright, daughter, age 10, school, born Northfleet, Kent; Thomas James Wright, son, age 8, school, born Northfleet, Kent; Maude Mary Wright, daughter, age 5, school, born Northfleet, Kent. 

1911 Census - 13 Lewisham Road, Lewisham SE - Arthur James Blackwell, head, age 38, married, flour mill hand, worker, born Coggeshall, Essex; Emma Blackwell, wife, age 41, married 15 years, 3 children, all still alive, coffee house keeper, own account, born Greenstead Green, Essex; Edward James Blackwell, son, age 13, school, born Bocking, Essex; Reginald Victor Blackwell, son, age 11, school, born Stisted, Essex; Kathleen Minne Blackwell, daughter, age 9, school, born Stisted, Essex; John Stanley Wright, boarder, age 29, flour mill hand, born Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Enlisted , Deptford, Kent, age 32 years & 29 days, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 134lbs, old appendix scar, scar mid abodomen.  Resided 24 Woodland Street, Hither Green, SE. Formerly lead burner.

Seven brothers, all serving with the Colours, (six in the Army & one in the Navy), & four sisters.

27th November 1915, Registry Office Lewisham, married Alice Susan Simpson, spinster, 24 Woodland Street, Hither Green, SE. 

Home, 31st March 1915 to 14th March 1916; BEF, 15th March 1916 to 22nd July 1916.

31st March 1915, enlisted; 1st April 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th April 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1916, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1916, 5 Infantry Base Depot; 3rd April 1916, joined Battalion "B" Company, In the Field; 22nd July 1916, posted missing.

25th March 1917, date when Separation Allowance of 12/6 a week & Allotment of pay of 3/6 a week payable to wife will cease.

26th March 1917, pension of 10/- a week awarded to widow.

1st May 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Alice Susan Wright, 24 Woodland Street, Hither Green, SE.13; Children, none; Father, John Wright,  50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Mother, Ellen Wright, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Brothers - Harry Wright, age 30, 7 Factory Road, Northfleet, Kent; Fred Wright, age 24, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Percy G Wright, age 21, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Thomas Wright, age 17, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Frank Wright, age 35, Northfleet; Walter Wright, age 32, Northfleet; Ernest Wright, Canada; Sisters - Laura W French, age 28, Gibraltar; Eslie Rose Taylor, age 26, 13 Pelham Road South, Gravesend; Ada Wright, age 19, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent; Maud Wright, age 15, 50 Station Road, Northfleet, Kent.

Buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, X. D. 10., Longueval, Somme, France.