WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 29513 | Lance Corporal Thomas Sidney Wright | 7th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment | Born 1881 |
| Army service record | The Casualty
Form lists the various key dates in his army career: Sydney enlisted on 7th December 1915 (conscription began in January 1916 for single men). He was posted to the reserve and mobilised on 25th September 1916. He was posted to France on 21st October 1917 with the 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. On the 24th March 1918 he was reported missing. On the casualty form this looks like 1916, but he did not land in France until 1917 where another form shows he served 6 months before being captured and spending 9 months as a PoW. |
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| Roll of Honour | Wounded whilst serving on the Western front | His medal card shows he was awarded the British and Victory Medals. | |
| Forces War Records | 7th (Service) Battalion having been posted to France on 21st October 1917 he could have been involved in: Second Battle of Passchendaele. And During 1918 The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Havrincourt, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre. 11.11.1918 Ended the war in France, Aulnoye. |
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| Discharge Records | His Pension
Award Sheet describes this as “G.S.W.L. Foot”. i.e. a gunshot
wound to the left foot, “due to sevice during war”. The review
board ruled that it was not a disability and rejected his claim. Page 1 of his statement of disability form says he enlisted at Derby on 25th September 1915 and that he was wounded by a machine gun bullet on 36th March 1918. This may be incorrect as he would have been a PoW by then. His reply to the enquiry of the form to give the name of his National health Approved Society was that he was a member of the Warehousemen and Clerks Provident Association, a body which eventually became part of the trades union USDAW. He gave his address as “Saxondale”, Orlando Drive, Carlton, Nottingham. Page 2 gives his empoyers as Mssrs Gopestake, Crampton and Co of 36 Houndsgate, Nottingham, and his occupation as warehouseman. The form is stamped “Military Hospital Carrington Nottingham” 28/2/19. |
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Family history etc
| 29513 | Lance Corporal Thomas Sidney Wright | ||
| 1881 | Born Kneeton April 1881 | ||
| Census 1891 | Living in Radcliffe with: Father: Thomas Bentley Wright, b 1855 Bottesford Mother: Mary A Wright, b 1855 Witham, Lincs Siblings: James C wright, b Kneeton 1880 Ethel M Wright, b 1882 Kneeton Charles H Wright, b 1886 Kneeton Father’s cousin: Mary A Wright, b 1868 Kneeton And: Anne Fletcher, b 1873 Bennington Lincolnshire |
Farmer (1881: 230 acres employing 6 men) Servant |
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| Census 1901 | Living in Bottesford with: Grandfather: James Wright, b 1823 East Bridgford Grandmother: Mary AR Wright, b 1833 Scarrington And: Rebecca Gibbon, b 1875 Humbleby, Lincs Ada M North, b 1884 Grantham |
Warehouseman, Lace Retired surgeon Servant Servant |
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| Census 1911 | Living in Newton with: Uncle: George Edward Caparn, b 1857 North Witham Lincolnshire |
Warehouseman, Pinafore and Apron Manufactory Farmer |
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| 1912 GRO | January 17th 1912 married Mary Kathleen Morris at Shelford Parish Church. Probable daughter: Edna L b. 1915 Basford |
Mary, b 1882, was daughter of Hodgkinson Morris, farmer, Saxondale. | Thomas’ occupation was warehouseman. Kathleen worked in the dairy on her father’s farm. |
| Bingham Parish Magazine Christmas 1918 | Canon Hutt, the Rector, wrote: When Sydney was wounded he was not too well treated, but from the time he was convalescent in hospital, and when he was working on a farm, right up to the day he was repatriated, he had nothing of which he could reasonably complain. The food he received from the Germans was uneatable but luckily his parcels arrived regularly, and on the whole he had, as a prisoner of war, an exceptionally good time. Had all the prisoners been treated as well as he was there could never have been this deep and bitter feeling of hatred and contempt for Germans. As it is, it is one which will last for generations. |
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| 1920 | Mary K Wright died 1920 Basford | ||
| 1924 | Married Emilie Irons, Grantham, jun qtr | ||
| 1939 Register | 119 Woodthorpe Drive: Thomas S Wright, b. 24 Mar 1881, married Emile Wright, b. 28 feb ?, married Frank Bouser, b. 29 Sep 1903, married E?lsie Bouser, b.29 Jul 1911, married |
Factory manager, frocks and blouses Unpaid domestic duties Chief Clerk, timber merchant Unpaid domestic duties |
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| 1943 GRO/ Probate records |
Died 7 November, aged 62, while living at Brechin, 119 Woodthorpe
Drive, effects £1490 16s 9d. His occupation was Manager of Gown Factory. The informant was his son-in-law F Bonsor of Russell Drive, Wollaton, Nottingham. |
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