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The Roll lists his address as Rogers Street. It innaccurately states that he died on 9/10/1918 serving in the 7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment; he actually died on 6/10/1918 serving in the Gloucestershire Regiment.
(CWGC records that Private Harold Francis Wright, regimental number 36640, died aged 27 on 6/10/1918 serving in the 1st/5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and is buried in grave III.E.20 at Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of Edward and Emma Wright of Peterborough and as the husband of Alice A Wright of 44 Upper Abbey Street, Nuneaton.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Harold died of wounds on 6/10/1918 and that his mother Emma and widow Alice were his legatees. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Peterborough who enlisted at Nuneaton, and that he had formerly served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment under regimental number 17959.
The Medal Rolls record that Harold initially served in the 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment under regimental number 17959, then joined the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment under regimental number 36640; he then served in the 8th Battalion Gloucestershires, before joining the 1/5th Battalion.
The birth of Harold Francis Wright was registered in Peterborough District in 1891. He was baptised at St Mark's Church in Peterborough on 5/6/1892 as the son of Edwin and Emma Ann Wright of 119 Gladstone Street, where the family was still living on the 1901 census. On the 1911 census Harold was living at 119 Granville Street with his widowed mother Emma. His marriage to Alice A Beasley was registered in Nuneaton District in 1915).