Person    | Male  Born 15/7/1891  Died 1/4/1915

Arnold Wright

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Arnold Wright

Rifleman Arnold Henry Wright was born on 15 July 1891, one of the five children of Henry James Wright (1860-1929) and Mary Jane Wright née Mann (b.1862). On 20 August 1891 his father, who was the vicar at St Matthew's Church, Marylebone, baptised his son and the baptismal register there shows the family were residing at 8 Randolph Road, Maida Vale.

in the 1901 census he is shown as living at 18 Portsdown Road, Maida Vale with his parents, three siblings: Theodora Edith Mary Wright (1889-1982), Eirene Mary Wright (1895-1986), Redvers Henry Wellington Wright (1900-1978) and a female domestic servant.

The 1911 census lists him as a black & white artist and lithographer who was one of three boarders at the home of William and Alice Maud May Dolman at 95 Shepherdess Walk, Islington. William Dolman (1875-1958) was a clerk in holy orders.

In August 1914 he enlisted in the 9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), service number 2041. He entered France on 5 November 1914 and was killed in action on 1 April 1915. As he has no known grave, he is commemorated on Stone F, Panel 54, on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres (now Ieper), West Flanders, Belgium.

On 27 August 1915 his army effects totalling £3-0s-10d were sent to his father who also received his £3-0s-0d war gratuity on 2 July 1919. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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