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The Roll lists his address as 22 Gladstone Street. It also records the death of his brother Archibald.
(CWGC records that Rifleman J. Wright, regimental number 43885, died on 15/5/1918 serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, posted to the 13th Kensington Battalion of the London Regiment. He is buried in grave I.B.22 at Ligny St Flochel British Cemetery at Averdoingt in France.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that James died on 15/5/1918, and that his brother Richard was his legatee. James' Medal Index Card records that he initially served in the Royal Sussex Regiment under regimental number G/20329, then in the King's Royal Rifle Corps under regimental number 43885, and that he was posted to the 1/13th London Regiment.
On the 1911 census James was aged 25, living with his parents William and Sarah at 31 Westwood Street in Peterborough. He had been baptised on 31/1/1886 at St Mark's Church in Peterborough as the son of William and Sarah of Bright Street in Peterborough).