Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknd died a soldier's death, fighting against fearful odds and under every possible disadvantage." Capt. Wright was far above the average both at polo and tennis, and played tennis for his Corps (A.S.C.) in Regimental Tournaments at Queen's Club, twice being in the final; he also had the reputation of being an excellent shot. Once in Central India, while on a shooting expedition, he was walking with his elder brother and a few natives single-file along a narrow path through a thick jungle, when they came face to face with a huge tiger. Capt. Wright shot the animal dead, and saved what might have been a catastrophe; the skin of the tiger, after being cured, was found to measure from end to end, 12 feet. [Illustration: =Hugh S. N. Wright.=] =WRIGHT, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3267), 187388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WRIGHT, JOHN HUTTON=, Private, No. 11431, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Albert Henry Wright, of 25, Grange Road, Small Heath, Birmingham; _b._ co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at Bethune, 10 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action. Buried in town cemetery there; _unm._ =WRIGHT, LAWRENCE WILLIAM=, Eng. Lieut. R.N., only _s._ of the late Lawrence Wright, of Orwell, Coatham, by his wife, Mary Livingstone (Orwell, Coatham, Redcar, Yorks), dau. of John Whyte; _b._ Middlesbrough, 4 Oct. 1880; educ. Coatham Grammar School, La Chatelaine College, Geneva, and the Durham College of Science; was an Engineer and volunteered his services after the outbreak of war and was gazetted Eng. Lieut. (temp.) and appointed H.M.S. Bulwark, 11 Sept. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Lawrence W. Wright.=] =WRIGHT, LEONARD FREDERICK HALL=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19544, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WRIGHT, SYDNEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2610, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); joined the Queen Victoria Rifles 14 Sept. 1914; went to France 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried Larch Wood, 1, 29, Reference Map Belgium, 28, 1/40,000. =WRIGHT, THOMAS=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Stephen Wright, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, Farmer, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of J. Christian, of Barrow House, Rutland; _b._ Ruskington, 6 July, 1889; educ. Christ's Hospital School, Lincoln, and King's College London (Associate; B.Sc.; A.I.C.); was a Demonstrator in Chemistry; joined King Edward's Horse in Feb. 1913; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Berkshires, 24 Dec. 1914; left for France 29 Mar. 1915; and was killed in action 2 May, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Fauquissart, near Laventie, while on a reconnoitring patrol; _unm._ Buried in the Fauquissart Cemetery. His Commanding Officer, Major R. P. Harvey, wrote: "He was on duty in the trenches with his platoon and had taken out a sergt. and a man to reconnoitre a trench half way between the opposing lines. At 8 p.m. he returned to report that he had seen footmarks leading to the enemy's trench. About 10 p.m. he asked permission to go on the next patrol as this was a duty which he particularly liked, and was allowed. While peering in the darkness, both he and the sergt. who was with him showing their heads above a flimsy parapet, a volley from the enemy was fired and your son was struck through the head, heart and wrist. He fell dead without a sound. The sergt. was unable to move him, but returned and reported. A brother subaltern and three men at once set out to find his remains which they brought down to headquarters by midnight. He was laid to rest in the little cemetery of Fauquissart where some 30 men of his Battn. lie. Having trained your son at Portsmouth when he joined this battn., I can testify personally to the loss the regt. has sustained in the death of a most promising young officer. One who was always willing, quite reliable, and of a most placid and cool temperament in danger." =WRIGHT, THOMAS=, Private, No. 20061, 4th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs) (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Worley Wright, of Bexhill, by his wife, Ellen; _b._ Bexhill, 19 April, 1854, enlisted in Oct. 1915, and died at Faversham, 30 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while in training. He _m._ at the Baptist Church, Erith, 6 July, 1890, Fanny (60, Kingsley Road, Maidstone), dau. of William Town; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Thomas Wright.=] =WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 8820, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 17 Jan. 1915. =WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, E.R.A., R.N.R. 425EB, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 306457 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WRIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17936, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WROUGHTON, MUSGRAVE CAZENOVE=, 2nd Lieut., 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, only _s._ of William Musgrave Wroughton, of 77, Chester Square, London, S.W., and of Creaton Lodge, co. Northampton, by his wife, Edith Constance, dau. of Henry Cazenove, of Lilies, Aylesbury, and nephew of Philip Wroughton, of Woolley Park, co. Berks, M.P., J.P., D.L. (see The Plantagenet Roll, Mortimer-Percy, Vol. 1. p. 203); _b._ in London, 1 Oct. 1891. He was educ. at Harrow and at Christchurch, Oxford, and during his school and college vacations was a keen follower of the Pytchley Hounds, of which pack his father was master for many years. On leaving Harrow he received a commission in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and in 1912 he accompanied Sir Robert Baden-Powell as A.D.C. on his world tour in connection with the Boy Scouts' movement. After serving for four years in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, he was given a commission in the Special Reserve, 12th Lancers, as 2nd Lieut. (on probation) in Oct. 1913; the appointment was confirmed after his death, to date from 29 Oct. 1914. In Aug. 1914, he accompanied his regt. to the Front, and was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was killed in action near Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914, and was buried in Kemmel Churchyard, Belgium; _unm._ [Illustration: =M. C. Wroughton.=] =WYATT, ERNEST JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, 307234, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WYKES, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2912, 2/10th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Henry Wykes, of 29, West View Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Builder's Manager, by his wife, Henrietta Adela Louisa, dau. of Laurance Rose; _b._ Hemel Hempstead, 16 May, 1892; educ. Council School there; was a Draper; volunteered and enlisted in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles in July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and died |