Name
Albert Wright
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/04/1916
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3672
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
B Coy. 1st/1st Bucks Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
E. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
LOVED & REMEMBERED ALWAYS
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Memorial, Hawridge, Bucks, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Albert Wright was born in Wigginton, Herts in 1889, the son of William and Maria Wright and one of seven children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Heath End, Wigginton, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They had moved to Hawridge, Buckinghamshire by 1901 and his father was then working as a horseman on a farm.
His mother died in 1901 and on the 1911 Census Albert was living with his widowed father and siblings Alice, Annie and William at Hawridge. Albert was then working as a shepherd.
Wartime Service
Albert Wright enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks and and served with the 1st/1st Bucks Bn of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry.
He died of wounds on 25 April 1916, aged 27, and is buried in Beauval Communal Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £7 2s 10d. He also ordered his headstone inscription while living at Hawridge Common, Nr Berkhamsted, Herts., in reads: "LOVED & REMEMBERED ALWAYS".
His sister Annie Wright applied for a pension which was refused, but she was awarded a gratuity (amount unspecified).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
