On the outbreak of WW1 he joined the 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. He fought at Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine being promoted to Colour Sergeant and awarded the Military Medal. On being demobbed he joined the Hertfordshire Constabulary and was commended 3 times by the St. Albans Coroner.
Read more From 1943 he served in the RAF as a Flight Engineer on a Lancaster bomber, shot down in 1944 whilst returning from a mission he evaded the Germans for 7 months until he was liberated by advancing Allied soldiers. After the war he served in both the Metropolitan and Nottingham City Police before transferring to Hertfordshire.
Read more Private 105805, 1st/1st, Hertfordshire Yeomanry who died of Meningitis on 20th July 1917.
Read more Another bare knuckle fight that ended tragically.
Read more ‘A former Police Superintendent at Bishop’s Stortford, Mr Harry Wright, of ‘Oxhey’, Grange Road, died at Bishop’s Stortford Hospital yesterday (Thursday) aged 64.’ That was the first line as reported by the Hertfordshire Mercury in January 1947. So who was Harry Wright ? Harry Wright was born 21 February 1882 in Tiptree, Essex. In 1898, at the ...
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