E.+B.+WRIGHT

Wright, Ernest Baker, Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class, 272020, HMS Itchen, Royal Navy Died 6th July 1917 Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent

According to the service record indexes held at the National Archives, Ernest Wright was born in Plymouth, Devon, on the 12th November 1889.

Ashbourne News, 10th August 1917 Ernest Baker Wright is mentioned as one of those remembered at a memorial service held in Clifton Parish Church. He lost his life alongside seven other men when their destroyer was torpedoed.

According to the CWGC, those seven men were as follows:

Stoker 1st Class Dennis Collins, 304389, aged 32, born in Tonbridge, Kent Leading Stoker William Lloyd Frampton, K/14503, aged 23, born in Croydon, Surrey Stoker 1st Class Stanley Hedges, SS/108171, aged 27, born in Charlton, London Mate Edwin James Hicks, aged 32, born in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland Able Seaman Reginald Gilbert Maund, J/36175, aged 19, born in Swansea, Glamorganshire Able Seaman Alfred Revell, 218249, aged 32, born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Able Seaman Walter John Sutton, 212421, aged 33, born in Margate, Kent

All are commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.

1911 Census <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Aged 21 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">An Engine Room Artificer in the Royal Navy <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Visiting the home of Ellen Parry, of 38, Elgin Avenue, Maida Hill, Middlesex