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