Thomas Nicholson Wright

Thomas attested on a short service engagement (duration of war) on the 10th October 1915, aged 22. He was posted to the 106 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He embarked at Southampton for Le Havre, France on 17/18 May 1917. He was wounded on 15th August 1917 but remained on duty. However, he was wounded again and died on 20 October 1917 at No. 61 Clearing Station. He was buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium (grave ref. IX.E.6). CWGC - Dozinghem Military Cemetery (extract): 'Westvleteren was outside the front held by Commonwealth forces in Belgium during the First World War, but in July 1917, in readiness for the forthcoming offensive, groups of casualty clearing stations were placed at three positions called by the troops Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. The 4th, 47th and 61st Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Dozinghem and the military cemetery was used by them until early in 1918.'

CWGC headstone personal inscription: 'Greater love hath no man' Nether Langwith village is in the parish of Norton Cuckney St Mary. Thomas is commemorated on both Norton Cuckney St Mary and Nether Langwith memorials. Inscription on the War Memorial information board: Thomas Nicholas WRIGHT (Gunner). 'Thomas Wright was the son of George and Annie Wright of Pasture Hills Farm, Nether Langwith. He was 24 years of age when he died of wounds on 20th October 1917 which he received in the third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). He is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.' Correspondence in his service document dated 18 March 1918 stated that his medals should be sent to his father and were to be held in trust for his sister Dorothy and handed to her on attaining an age “to appreciate their value.”