Name
Isaac John Wright
6 May 1876
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/06/1916
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3/10833
Norfolk Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
I. C. 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead Memorial
Pre War
Isaac John Wright (known as John) was born on 6 May 1876 in South Creake, Fakenham, Norfolk, the son of Henry and Susan Wright. On the 1881 Census the family were living at Church End, South Creake, Norfolk where his father was working as an agricultural labourer.
He was living with his wife Ellen and two children on the 1901 Census at 14 Montague Terrace, Sutton, Surrey, and working as a Gas Stoker. On enlistment in 1914 he gave his age as 38 and his occupation as engine driver.
His widow gave her address as 44 Stayton Road, Sutton Surrey on pension records. but later lived at 18 Cherry Bounce, Hemel Hempstead.
Wartime Service
John initially enlisted on 29 August 1914 at Sutton, Surrey (reg. no. 46088) to serve with the Royal Garrison Artillery, under the name of Isaac John Wright, but was discharged on 16 September as unfit and diagnosed with Brights Disease (kidneys). It seems, however, that he recovered and re-enlisted in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey on 27 October 1914. He had been in the National Reserve and had served in the Garrison Artillery.
He served with the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in France from 24 March 1915 and fought in the 2nd Battle of Ypres and the Capture of Hill 60.
He was killed in action on 4 June 1916, aged 40 and is buried in Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.
Additional Information
His widow, Mrs E Wright, 18 Cherrybourne, [Cherry Bounce] Hemel Hempstead, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "REST IN PEACE". His widow received a war gratuity of £7 and pay owing of 3d. She also received a pension of £2 9s 0d a week for herself and her children. Father to Robert Charles Benjamin Wright who served with the East Surrey Regiment and was killed in action on 28 September 1915, aged 17.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
