Corporal 301907 Osborne Gardner - Wright
The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M
Regiment/Unit: Tank Corps - 13th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 06/11/1915
Previous Reg/Num: 20120, South Lancashire Regiment
Age at death: 20
Date of death: 25th of April 1918
Born: Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Wytschaete Military Cemetery - IV. D. 10.
Family details:
Mother Mary and siblings are legatees.
Census details:
1901 - 6 years old Osborne is living at 129 Knowsley Road, St Helens with parents Walter (39), Mary J (39) and four siblings: Amy G (14), Florence G (12), Edmund G (4), Raymond G (1). 1911 - Sees 16 years old 'Vehicle Wheelwright' Osborne living at 49 Rodney Street, Newtown, St Helens with widowed mother Mary Jane (49) and two siblings: Edmund (14), Raymond (11).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url] SDGW have this casualties birthplace as St Helens.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=27]Remembered On St Lukes Church WW1 Memorial, Knowsley Road.[/url] SDGW have this casualties birthplace as St Helens.
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Wright_OG_301907_Tank_Corps.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Corporal Osborne Gardner Wright at Wytschaete Military Cemetery
(Photo courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
