WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Gunner George Henry Wright | Royal Field Artillery | Born 1880 | |
| Served in UK |
No service records available on ancestry etc
Family history etc
| Gunner George Henry Wright | |||
| 1880 | Born in Bingham July-Aug-Sep 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 |
Shoemaker (brother of Vincent Wright) Annie - unmarried mother of Russell Campbell Wright b 1895) Gardener |
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| Census 1901 | Living in a five room house on Long Acre, Bingham with: Father: William Evans Wright Mother: Mary A O Siblings: Elsie Hardy Frank Hardy Nephew: Russell Campbell |
Student Bailiff Bingham County Court Dressmaker Grocer |
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| 1911 | Married Lizzzie Marston. Her father was a carrier and lived on Long Acre | ||
| Census 1901 | Living on Grantham Road with: Wife: Lizzie, b 1882 Nottingham Children: Una Marston, b 1907 Bingham Lilian Bessie, b 1909 Bingham |
Certified teacher, elementary school | |
| History of Bingham by Adelaide Wortley | “George Henry Wright was a gifted native of Bingham;
first a scholar of Bingham Church School, then pupil-teacher until he entered
the Nottingham Training College where he gained his teachers’ certificate
with honours. Later he became principal assistant at Huntingdon Street School,
Nottingham, where he was recognised as a brilliant teacher. Towards the
end of his career he was appointed Headmaster of Forster Street Boys’
School, Nottingham. He had, however, grievously suffered through military
service and died in September 1926 at the early age of forty five. “In his modesty, George Henry Wright wrote poems of outstanding merit under the pseudonym of Rupert Haywra. There will certainly be a revival of interest and renewed appreciation of the lovely content and phrasing of his published poems ‘Amidst Green Pastures—a title which to him meant ‘Bingham’. The third stanza of the title poem runs”: ‘Ah! Here peace broods in the heritage of shadows Which our forefathers gave for the solace of our souls When they bequeathed, for our joy and their continued remembrance The groves and the spinneys and the woods and the copses Close with aspiring elms and brave beeches and stolidly steadfast oaks; And when they left, for our most cherished possession The dim aisles of silence in the sacred acre, Where the immemorial yew loses not its leafage ever.’ |
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| Forest Folk Novel | As Rupert Haywra he acknowledged his friendship and debt to James Prior Kirk, who also lived in Bingham and whose son was killed in WW1. He dedicated 'Amidst Green Pastures' to Kirk. | ||