Walter Wright
Date of birth: 16.12.1877
Date of death: 31.5.1918
Area: Knottingley
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers
Family information: Son of John Stacey Wright and Elizabeth Wright nee Buxton
Rank: Private
Service number: 56327
War Service
Walter Wright enlisted at Pontefract and firstly was of the Yorkshire Regiment service number 21787. He later became Private 56327 of the 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died in Mesopotamia on 31st May 1918 and is buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq Plot IV row Q grave 21.
Family Life
Walter Wright was born in Ferrybridge on 16th December 1877, the youngest of at least 13 children born to John Stacey Wright and Elizabeth Wright. John Stacey Wright and Elizabeth Buxton married on 8th June 1851 at St Giles Church, Pontefract.
In the 1901 census he is shown as a Pottery Labourer living with his widowed mother Elizabeth at Fishergate, Ferrybridge. Sometime after her death in 1906 he moved to Stockton on Tees and in the 1911 census he is recorded as being a Shipyard Labourer, boarding with joseph Teague and his wife Mary Hannah. I believe Mary Hannah was formerly Mary Hannah Stacey from Ferrybridge, who would be a relative of Walter Wright.
Basra Military Cemetery