Private Joseph Wright

Army Number: 200133 formerly 1579

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

Went to France on 1st March 1915. Son of Robert and Eunice Wright, of 80, Liversage Street, Derby.

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 21, 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.