Notes
The Roll lists his address as 116 Gladstone Street.
(CWGC records that Private William Edward Wright, regimental number 201677, died aged 22 on 21/3/1918 serving in the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Richard & Eliza Wright of 116 Gladstone Street, Peterborough.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that William was a resident of Peterborough when he enlisted at Lincoln. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his death on 21/3/1918 was presumed, and that his mother Eliza was his legatee.
On the 1911 census William Wright, aged 15, was living with his parents Richard and Eliza at 116 Gladstone Street, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Peterborough. On the 1901 census the family was recorded as living at 113 Gladstone Street. The birth of William Edward Wright was registered in Peterborough District in 1895. He was baptised at Peterborough St Mark's Church on 6/10/1895 as the son of Richard and Eliza of 8 Russell Street).