18656 Pte Harry Wright 1st Batt Dorsetshire Regt

[gralorn]

Trying to establish who were his parents and where they were from. He sadly died in action on 30th Sept 1918.

[JJen]

If it's of any help, his widow was Gertrude Phillippa Wright

JJ

[JJen]

There is a marriage of a Harry W Wright to a Gertrude P Ainsworth
q3 1914 Kings Norton
Vol 6d Page 223

JJ

[gralorn]

Briliant, I now think that they had a child also so will have to find that out. Thank you

[MaxD]

The Register of Soldiers' Effects shows him leaving his effects to his widow Gertrude P which links with JJen.  His entry in the Soldiers who died in the Great War has his birth place as Kensal Rise Middlesex

Most likely subsequent birth is George H Wright Q4 1915 Weymouth (where he joined up according to SDGW).

MaxD

[gralorn]

Thank you that certainly puts some meat on the bone as they say. Will just need to look up where he was KIA and what happened to his widow and son. Thank you all again.

[MaxD]

The war diary (National Archives http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7353760 also on Ancestry) has a comprehensive description of the action of 30 Sep 1918 which took place starting in square N 3 in the linked map/image
 http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=13&lat=49.8988&lon=3.2937&layers=101465269&right=BingHyb
and then to the north on the map that joins that one
 http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=49.9390&lon=3.3047&layers=101465254&right=BingHyb
Ecume trench can be seen on the first map going north and appearing on the second at H 33.

MaxD

[gralorn]

I will certainly have a look at those
Thanks again

[jim1]

Gertrude remarried to Ernest Sims in 1925 B'ham & lived in Erdington B'ham.
Died 1958 Bromsgrove Worcs.