WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Private Frank Hardy Wright | Born 1883 | ||
| Roll of Honour | Served with as South African Regiment, in South Africa and
on the Western front. He was wounded twice. |
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| http://www.geni.com/projects/South-Africans-in-World-War-I/12369 | When the World War I broke out in 1914, the South African government chose to join the war on the side of the Allies. General Louis Botha, the then prime minister, faced widespread Afrikaner opposition to fighting alongside Great Britain so soon after the Second Boer War and had to put down a revolt by some of the more militant elements before he could send an expeditionary force of some 67,000 troops to invade German South-West Africa (now Namibia). The German troops stationed there eventually surrendered to the South African forces in July 1915. (In 1920 South Africa received a League of Nations mandate to govern the former German colony and to prepare it for independence within a few years.) | ||
No army records available
Family history etc
| Private Frank Hardy Wright | |||
| 1883 | Born Bingham April-Jun-May qtr | ||
| Census 1891 | Living in Moor Lane, Bingham with: Father: William Evans Wright, b 1845 Bingham Mother: Mary Ann Overton, neé Motson, b 1848 Spalding, Lincs Siblings: Annie, b 1869 Joseph, b1871 Rhoda Camilla, b 1878 George Henry , b. 1881 Elsie Hardy, b1887 Lily Overton, b 1890 |
Shoemaker (brother of Vincent Wright) Dressmaker - 1895 unmarried mother of Russell Campbell Wright Gardener |
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| Census 1901 | Living in Long Acre with: Father: William E, b 1844 Bingham Mother: Mary A O, b 1850 Spalding Siblings: George H, b 1881 Bingham Elsie, b 1887 Bingham Nephew: Russell C, b 1895 Bingham |
Grocery Worker Bailiff for County Court |
Russell Killed in Action |
| Census 1911 | No record on 1911 census |
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We have so far not been able to find papers relating to emigration. |
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