{"id":1926,"date":"2013-12-21T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T10:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/?page_id=1926"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:57:19","slug":"francis-noel-wright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/francis-noel-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Noel Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Name: <\/strong>Francis Noel Wright<\/p>\n

DoB:<\/strong>\u00a0 November 12, 1891<\/p>\n

Regt: <\/strong>Rifleman 241969,\u00a0<\/strong>6th Battalion King\u2019s Liverpool Regiment<\/p>\n

DoD: <\/strong>September 17, 1917<\/p>\n

Academic Career<\/strong>:\u00a0 CGS: 1903 -07<\/p>\n

Other: <\/strong>Buried at White House Cemetery, St.Jean-les -Ypres, Belgium.<\/p>\n

Biographical Information<\/strong> [toggle_container keep_open=”false” initial_open=”1″]<\/p>\n

son of William Ingle Wright, 4 Brookfield\u00a0Gardens, Carlisle.<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”Family Background”]Family Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francis was the youngest of five children of William Ingle Wright, a commercial clerk in a printing works and Eliza Margaret Edmiston. He was born in Carlisle.<\/p>\n

His father, and Francis\u2019s four older siblings Margaret, Alice, Robert, and William were all born in Suffolk.<\/p>\n

Francis\u2019s mother came from Montserrat, West Indies. Her father Robert born in Glasgow died in Montserrat. In 1881 and 1891 Eliza\u2019s mother Sarah Hyde was living at The Friends Retreat Lunatic Asylum, Walmgate, York and listed as a lady\u2019s companion and an officer and a widow.[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”Academic Record”]Academic Record:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carlisle Grammar School: 1903 -07[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”War Service”]War Service<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

When Francis enlisted in Liverpool. In September 1917 the Regiment was largely in billets undergoing some training. There was even a divisional horse show on September 6. On September 15 the battalion moved from Zutkerque to Vlamertinghe.\u00a0The camp was shelled a little on September 17 and one man (Francis?) died of wounds. It seems Francis was very unlucky.[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”Battalion”]Battalion: <\/strong>King’s Liverpool Regt[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”Other”]Other:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1911 Francis was an apprentice printer.<\/p>\n

His family had the following inscription put on his gravestone ” He made the sacrifice willingly<\/em>“.[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

[toggle title=”Sources”]Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlisle School Memorial Register 1264-1924<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Census: 1911 RG14<\/i>;\u00a0Piece:\u00a031312<\/i>;<\/p>\n

1901 RG13\/4865; 1901 RG13;\u00a0Piece:\u00a03380; 1891 RG12<\/i>;\u00a0Piece:\u00a04290<\/i>;<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary[\/toggle]<\/p>\n

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Key Information Name: Francis Noel Wright DoB:\u00a0 November 12, 1891 Regt: Rifleman 241969,\u00a06th Battalion King\u2019s Liverpool Regiment DoD: September 17, 1917 Academic Career:\u00a0 CGS: 1903 -07 Other: Buried at White House Cemetery, St.Jean-les -Ypres, Belgium. Biographical Information [toggle_container keep_open=”false” initial_open=”1″] son of William Ingle Wright, 4 Brookfield\u00a0Gardens, Carlisle. [toggle title=”Family Background”]Family Background: Francis was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1926","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}