Name
Frank Walter Bright
21/10/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/03/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10749
Royal Irish Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH OLD MILITARY CEMETERY
A. 6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Cheshunt, Ireland World War 1 Casualty Memorial Record
Pre War
Frank Walter Bright was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire on 21st October 1891, son of Charles William Bright a, Nursery Garden Worker and Sarah Bright (nee White). One of eight children although one died in infancy.
He was Baptised in the Parish Church, Cheshunt, on 15th November 1891.
Frank attended St Mary’s Infants school, Cheshunt, from April 1895 to June 1899.
1901 Census records Frank aged 9, living with his parents, and six siblings at, 1, Ethelbert Cottages, Cadmore Lane, Cheshunt, Herts.
His mother Sarah Bright died in the early part of 1910, aged 48.
1911, Frank, his widowed father, sisters Alice (24) who is the family house keeper, Gertrude (12), and brother Alfred (11), are still living in Cadmore Lane, Cheshunt. Frank was employed as a Nursery Garden Hand.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted at London, posted to Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) with the service number 10749.
At the outbreak of war the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers were stationed at Quetta, India, returning to England in October 1914, and stationed at Winchester Barrack, Hampshire, were they joined the 82nd Brigade of the 27th Division, where Frank joined them.
They were mobilized for war in December 1914. Frank and the 2nd Battalion, landed in France on 19th December 1914, where they were engaged in various actions on the Western Front.
Frank was killed in action on 14th March 1915, during the Action at Saint Eloi, Belgium. He is buried in the CWGC Dickebusch Old Cemetery, Belgium. (Dickebusch Cemetery was used by our troops as a front-line Cemetery in January, February & March 1915, it has 41 UK, 3 Canadian and 1 German, soldiers buried there).
Additional Information
His effects of £7-10s-7d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £5, went to his father Charles.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
