BORN SCUNTHORPE, LINCS, 26/10/1897. SON OF THOMAS WRIGHT AND ALICE WRIGHT, 19 CLAPPISON SQUARE, SYKES STREET, HULL AND 12, MASON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS GRANDPARENTS LIVED AT 1, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION ON 24/04/1916, AGED 17, CARRYING A WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM THE FIELD. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ALICE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON 08/05/1915. *
HE IS LISTED IN THE WAR PENSION RECORDS, WITH SERGEANT, GEORGE WOOD, 8881, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, AT 12 MASON STREET, HULL.
First name:
CLARENCE
Military Number:
1532
Rank:
Private
Date Died
24/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
17
