WRIGHT+W.+B.

Wright, Walter Brooks, Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant, 1275, Derbyshire Yeomanry Born St. Thomas, Derby Enlisted Derby Resided Sawley, near Derby Died of wounds Home 22nd September 1915

Derby (Normanton) Cemetery, A, 619

Employed as a clerk, Stores Department, Midland Railway, Derby

Derby Daily Express, 23rd September 1915

Walter Wright was the son of Mr. L. G. Wright, ‘the well-known ex-county cricketer’, and had been in the Derbyshire Yeomanry ‘for some few years’. At the time of mobilization in August 1914, he was a trooper but was rapidly promoted. He served in Gallipoli, where he was wounded, and died as a result of his wounds at a hospital in Bristol. He was aged 24, and ‘was married (soon) after war was declared.’

1911 Census: Walter Brooks Wright was a 20 year old railway clerk, residing at 42, Derby Lane, Derby. He was the son of Levi George Wright, a railway clerk, and Agnes Harriet Wright.