Never forget: Captain T. Wright VC, 31 years old, of 57th Field Company, Corps of Royal Engineers, who was mortally wounded at Vailly in France in 1914.

Despite being under fire, he had been endeavouring to repair a pontoon bridge so that wounded men could cross to safety. An officer wrote that he was “….cool as a cucumber - the finest thing I ever saw. The poor fellow was killed just after my troops got across. No man earned a better Victoria Cross."

Nigel Payne