Second Lieutenant Frank Arnold Bright

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 11th March 1887 at Nottingham. Son of Sir Joseph and Lady Francis Ellen Bright. He was educated at Nottingham High School, Repton School and Nottingham University. He was a mechanical engineer for the Imperial Tobacco Company Limited (Messrs John Player and Sons, Nottingham). He was also a Sunday School teacher at Derby Road Baptist Church, Nottingham. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was posted to the 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 4th March 1915. He went to France 22nd August 1915, joining the 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 30th August 1915. He was killed in action, 13th October 1915, aged 28, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, whilst attempting to save Sergeant Major Benson.

Buried : Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Special Memorial in front of 1. A. 35. and 36.

Second Lieutenant Frank Arnold Bright is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Derbys Road Baptist Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Boys High School War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham University O.T.C War Memorial, Nottingham.
John Player War Memorial (Horizon Factory, Thane Road, Nottingham), Nottingham.
Repton School War Memorial, Repton, Derbyshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.