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Rank : Captain

Unit : 7th Bn

Biography :

Charles Wright was educated at Radley College and Hertford College (Oxford (on entry to which in 1909 he was awarded a History Exhibition and where it is to be presumed that he was a member of the OTC)). He obtained a third class in the Final Honour School of Modern History in 1913; he rowed in the Hertford Eight for three years, and in his third year was Captain of the Boats and President of the College. On leaving Oxford he was appointed to a mastership at Earleywood School, Ascot, where he remained till the summer of 1914. He was commissioned into The West Yorkshire Regiment on 12.9.1914, entering France in its 14th Battalion at Boulogne on 21.9.1914. He later served in 7th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, and promoted Captain in Aug 1915. He was Killed in Action at Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme on 14.7.1916, aged 25. He is buried at Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France.

Some information from a private source.

CWGC:

WRIGHT, CHARLES JAMES STEWART
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 14/07/1916
Age:25
Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: XXIV. J. 4.
Cemetery: SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

Additional Information:

Son of the late Charles Francis and Bertha Burnet Wright.

Date of Birth : 4.9.1890

Place of Birth : Portman Square, London

Date of Death : 14.7.1916

Place of Death : Bazentin-le-Petit, The Somme, France

Civil Occupation : Schoolmaster, Earleywood School, Ascot

Period of Service : 1914-16

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France