On the passing of our father we came across a verse written by him in this centenary year regarding the uncles he never knew and we thought it right to add it here.

I would also like to link this brother with his siblings, the two others killed and my grandfather, their brother who came home

ALBERT GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, KILLED 20.05.1915, MERVILLE COMMUNIAL CEMETERY, AGED 27

EDGAR JOSEPH WRIGHT, DIED 20.02.1966, SURVIVED THE FIGHTING IN BOTH WARS

CECIL WILLIAM WRIGHT, DIED 15.08.1915 KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, AGED 19

the verse  

In this centenary year of the poppy so red,

Remember the Great War and what was ahead,

With optimism and patriotic fervour they came,

To sign up for the army as though it was a game,

It will be over by Christmas so they all said,

Four bloody years later a million were dead

I commemorate three uncles I never knew

Killed in action in France and in Gallipoli too

A hundred years have now come and gone

But the poppy so red blooms on and on

We, the family that never knew you, salute you

GILES JONATHAN WRIGHT