George Henry Wright
He was employed as a farm labourer
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George was born in 1893, he was the son of the late William Wright a labourer and chimney sweep and Sarah Wright née Hall of Sheperd's Yard, Calverton. He was a farm labourer.
His father William Wright was born in 1842 at Calverton he died prior to the 1911 census his mother Sarah Hall was born in 1846 at Stubton, Lincolnshire, she died in 1906 aged 60 yrs they were married on 3rd Decvember 1871 at St Wilfrids Church, Calverton, they had 9 children.
In the 1911 census he has left the family home he is a servant a waggoner on a farm, 19 yrs and single he is living at Halloughton, Southwell with William Massey 37 yrs a farmer and his family.
He married to Gladys Evelyn Measham, spinster, of 24 Edwin Street, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham, on 23rd December 1916 at Daybrook parish church, Arnold
The CWGC record gives his widow Gladys' address as 187 Mansfield Road, Daybrook
George Wright attested on 20th March 1915 at Nottingham, aged 22yrs and 5 months. He named his mother Sarah as his next of kin.
He served with the 3rd Battalion Leceistershire Regiment. George was discharged on 10th May 1918 at Ripon, no longer fit for war service due to a gun shot wound (GSW) to his head which had left him with a fractured skull. He was 26 yrs of age, 5 feet seven inches tall with a 36 inch chest measurement, occupation farm labourer and intended place of residence 11 Nelson Square, Portland Road, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham. George was described as 'honest, sober and reliable'.
George died from his wounds and influenza and pnuemonia six months later on 24th November 1918, 13 days after the Armistice was signed. He was buried in Calverton Cemetery, Nottinghamshire (grave ref. 549).
CWGC headstone personal inscription:'Years have passed memories linger'
additional research and information Peter Gillings
George Wright
Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone marking his grave, Calverton
Photograph Peter Gillings