WRIGHT, Kensey Lyal Burns
| Service Number: | 2482 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Ormond Street State School, Richmond, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 19 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France Panel 23 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2482, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
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| 16 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2482, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 2482, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
23 October 1915 - To hospital with Influenza at Gallipoli
25 October 1915 - Transferred to hospital ship
30 October 1915 - Admitted to hopital in cairo
23 December 1915 - AWOL from Parade; confined to camp for 3 days
7 January 1916 - Rejoined unit at Tel-el-Kebir
17 February 1916 - Taken on strength 57 Battalion
15 March 1916 - Transferred to 60 Battalion
16 June 1916 - Embarked at Alexandria to join BEF
29 June 1916 - Disembarked at Marseilles
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His brother, 3513 Pte. Sydney Zeehan Probin Wright, 5th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Pozieres (70 kilometres to the south of Fromelles) only a few days later on 25 July 1916, aged 27.
In Kensey's service file is a letter to the AIF from the Town Clerk, City of Richmond, who wrote to Secretary, Department of Defence, 13 July 1917: 'Mr William Wright of 110 Lord St. obtained word twelve months ago that his two sons Sydney Wright No. 3513 Private, 5th Battalion, 2nd. Brigade and Private Kensey Wright No. 2482, 60th Battalion (formerly 57th Battalion) 15th Brigade 5th Division were missing after the Pozieres fight. Mr. Wright states he has been repeatedly at the offices of the Defence Department for further word but gets scant attention and as a result has demanded withdrawal of his third son under twenty-one years of age from the Ranks. At a meeting of the Richmond War service Committee held yesterday I was instructed to write you and request that definite word be conveyed to Mr. Wright and if the sons are killed that affairs be settled between the Department and Mr. Wright.'