Arthur Frederick Wright

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772686

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Colborne Street Methodist Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Staffordshire

Birth city:

Woverhampton

Address at enlistment:

80 Murray Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

80 Murray Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Machine hand

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX May 2, 1918

Wounded

Mrs. Ada Wright, 80 Murray Street, has received word that her husband, Acting Corporal Arthur F. Wright, was wounded on April 22, and admitted to the 57th Casualty Clearing Station. He suffered gunshot wounds in the shoulder and neck and a compound fracture of the right arm.

BX September 1, 1970

WRIGHT – Suddenly in Brantford at his residence, 6 Murray Street, on Monday, August 31, 1970, A.F. (Fred) Wright (retired letter carrier in his 83rd year; husband of the late Ada Richards; dear father of Mrs. Kenneth (Lilian) Peart of St. Catharines, Mrs. Ronald (Edna) Mason, Mrs. Edward (Dorothy) Bradshaw, both of Brantford; also 8 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; also, brothers and sisters in England. Resting at Hill and Robinson Limited, Funeral Home, Nelson and Queen Streets, until Wednesday. Service in the chapel at 3.30 p.m. Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, rev. E.A. Surrey will officiate. An Odd Fellows service Tuesday evening at 7.30 p.m., auspices Gore Lodge, No. 34 I.O.O.F.