WRIGHT Fred

  • First Name(s):
    Fred 
  • Surname:
    WRIGHT
  • Service Number:
    1586
  • Rank:

    Lance Sergeant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st/8th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    13th May 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave IV. B. 7.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, enlisted King's Norton, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

WRIGHT Fred Is Named On These Memorials

Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No 1 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club
Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No 2 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club
Lickey War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Lickey War Memorial with the information: May 13 1915.
Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No 1 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club under Commercial Staff with the information: 8th Batt Worcester Regt.
Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No 2 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club under Commercial Staff with the information: 8th Batt Worcester Regt.

Further Information About WRIGHT Fred

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Jeff Taylor:
Lickey Territorial Sergeant Killed
Information has been received by Mrs Portman, of Victoria Cottages, Lickey Square, that her son, Sergeant Fred Wright, of the 8th Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in action on the 13 May 1915.  The sad news was conveyed in a letter from the Chaplain of the regiment.  Sergeant Wright was 24 years of age and lived with his step-father and mother, at Lickey Square.  At the time of the outbreak of war he was in the King’s Norton Company of the 8th Worcestershire Regiment and was employed as a clerk at the Austin Motor Works, Longbridge.  He had been a member of the Lickey Church Choir from boyhood, and since the war he always attended the church on Sundays when on furlough.  The news was announced by the Vicar (The Re. SA.C. Gayford) at the Sunday morning’s service.  Particulars of the man’s death were also conveyed to the family in a letter from Private Randolph Harris, a son of the Rednal Postmaster, who was serving side by side with the deceased.

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