Name
Walter Wright
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/04/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
32276
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church, High Cross, Thundridge War Memorial, Not on the Colliers End memorial
Pre War
Walter was born on the 26th February 1879, in Colliers End, Herts. The son of Ben and Mary Ann Wright. He was baptised on the 20th April 1879, in High Cross, Herts. He was one of eight children. Walter Married Annie Elizabeth Odell on the 31st March 1902, in High Cross, Herts. They had four children.
The 1881 Census records Walter, aged 2, as living with his parent and six sisters in Turnpike Road, Colliers End, Standon, Herts. his father Ben was an agricultural labourer. In 1891 he was still living with his parents, brother and sister in Colliers End, Herts. Then in 1901 he was living with his widowed mother in High Cross, Herts. his occupation was given as a General Agricultural Labourer. In 1902 he married Annie Elizabeth Odell, then by 1911, Walter, then 32, had three children, living in High Cross, Herts. a boarder was also present in the five room house. Walter’s occupation is given as a having been a gardener at The Grange Hoddesdon for nine years. Walter enlisted in Hertford, into the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Wartime Service
He is said on the memorial to have been in the 2nd Beds, but seems to have been in the 6th Bn. when he was killed.
Additional Information
His mother remarried. The His personal inscription on the headstone reads: “Son of Mary Ann Sale (Formerly Wright) of Wadesmill, Ware and the late Ben Wright: Husband of Annie Elizabeth Wright, of High Cross, Ware, Herts”. A brother was wounded in the Dar
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Malcolm Lennox, Pat Bird
