Henry died on August 31st 1917 in France. On June 17th 1916 (in Southampton) he wrote his will “In the event of my death I give the whole of my belongings to my mother Mrs Emily Wright, 107 Corporation Street West Ham London” Henry WC Wright 29355 L/Corp 119th Machine Gun Company WAR DIARY – WO95/2607/4 for the 119th Machine Gun Company Grantham 16/06/1916 Train left for Southampton Southampton 16/06/1916 3 Officers and 40 men left on Bellerophon for Havre at 16.00 Le Havre 17/06/1916 Arrived 09.00 and marched via overnight camp to Bruay Camp 17 19/01/1917 – 22/01/1917 Le Foret 23/01/1917 – 27/01/1917 4 Killed, 2 Wounded and 2 Guns buried on 23/01/1917 Sailly – Laurette Camp 12 28/01/1917 – 10/02/1917 11/02/1917 – 06/04/1917 – Various camps Etricourt 07/04/1917 – 17/04/1917 02/04/1917 denotes Etricourt as new Brigade and Coy HQ 18/04/1917 – 13/08/1917 – Various camps Gouzeaucourt 23/04/1917 – 26/05/1917 Heudicourt 14/08/1917 – 28/08/1917 Heudicourt 29/08/1917 The Company had baths this morning. Teams got ready for the line. Gonnelieu 30/08/1917 Relief was complete by 12.15am. OC. Coy visited OC 17th Welsh Regiment and arranged details for the raid tonight, also 6 guns and Brigade. The 8 guns were in position and ready to fire by 9.30pm. Weather was wet for the first part of the night. L/Cpl Wright was killed, by a sniper, near the shell hole gun. 31/08/1917 L/Cpl Wright was buried opposite Bde HQ R31c 8060 at 2.30pm today.

Robin Spittle