Basic Details
Surname
Wright
Forenames
Joseph Walton C
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
23193
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 72 Silver Street.

(CWGC records that Private Joseph Wright, regimental number 23193, died aged 19 on 2/12/1917 serving in 6th Battalion of The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, and is commemorated on Panel 3 of Cambrai Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Mr E Wright of 5 Silver Street, London Road, Peterborough.
His birth was registered as Joseph Wright in the Peterborough District in 1898. He was baptised at Fletton on 21/10/1898 as the son of Edward and Mary Ann Wright, with whom he was living at 72 Silver Street, Fletton on the 1901 and 1911 census. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his father Edward and sister Ethel were his legatees).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Royal West Surreys
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
6th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Cambrai
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
December
Day of death
2
Manner of death as stated
"Killed in action 2 December 1917 at Cambrai Woods"
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
72 SILVER STREET
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial