Private James Wright

Army Number: 201354 (formerly 4114)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Went to France on 10th December 1915. Son of James and Elizabeth Wright, of High Street, Codnor, Derbyshire.

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 20, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.