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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Percy Clarence Wright
British Army 12th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:Croydon
(d.22nd Oct 1918)
Percy Wright is the father of my common-law grandfather; from the little family tree research we've done, we've discovered that he and five others were killed that day from the same battalion (five privates and a captain) in the battle of Courtrai and Ooteghem (push to Ypres). They are buried at Harlebeke British Cemetery in West Flanders. He was 26 years old but there is no age on his headstone and indeed he and two other privates from the 12th killed the same day were re-buried at Harlebeke on 14th June 1920 for some unknown reason.
He had enlisted in December 1915 at Deptford, though the regiment was formed in Bermondsey in 1915. His son was four years old when Percy died. Family history recounts that his wife walked out upon hearing news of her husband's death and she was never seen again, leaving her sister to bring up my grandfather. However, we cannot find any record of their marriage, their residence in Croydon in 1910s nor of the birth of his wife.
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