WRIGHT, Herbert Walter John
| Service Number: | 2240 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia, 23 September 1896 |
| Home Town: | Corowa, Corowa Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor cycle mechanic |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 20 March 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Corowa War Memorial, Corowa War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2240, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2240, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2240, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Herbert was one of two sons of William and Alfhild Wright, of Corowa, New South Wales. The boys had been born in Lilydale, Tasmania. At some stage, probably about 10 years prior to the Great War, the family moved to Corowa NSW.
Herbert was evacuated from Pozieres during July 1916 with shell shock. He rejoined his battalion in the field only seven days before he was killed in action at Noreuil in France. He was only 20 years of age.
His younger brother, 6867 Pte. Eric Lyell Wright, 5th Battalion AIF, died of pneumonia in France on 7 February 1918, aged 19.
The Albury Banner, printed in April 1917, reported “Another local lad has paid the great sacrifice at the front. On Tuesday last the Rev. Ingram-Pearson received a telegram from the Defence authorities asking him to inform Mr. and Mrs. W. Wright, of South Corowa, that their son, Private Bert Wright, had been wounded in an engagement in France on March 20, and had since died. He had been previously wounded, but recovered and got back to the fighting line. Another son of the bereaved family is serving at the front.”