Second Lieutenant Harold Viccars Bright

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private 67140 )

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Arthur and Margaret Ellis Bright of 24 Regent Street Nottingham. He was employed by Cooper and Roe Hosiery Manufacturers prior to enlisting.  He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 1st March 1917. Joined the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Exeter Castle,  near Philosophe, France, on 10th May 1917.  He was killed, on 21st September 1918, by the explosion of a dump of 4.5 ammunition outside Battalion headquarters, near Holnon, France. 

Buried: Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt, France. Row C. Grave 56.

Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt, France.

Second Lieutenant Harold Viccars Bright is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham. 
Derby Road Baptist Church (Thomas Elwis Baptist Church) Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lieutenant Archibald Viccars Bright, 3rd attd. 11th  Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.