Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Henry and Ada G. Wright. His elder brother John G also died. The 1911 census records for 5 & 6, Upper Green Place, Great Bowden, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Henry Wright, head of the family and married for 26 years, a Shepherd and Labourer, born 1858 in Langham, Rutland and his wife Ada, born 1864 in Charnwood Forest, Loughborough, Leicestershire, also Alice, daughter, single and a Corset Factory Worker, born 1886 in Whissendine, Rutland, William Richard, son, single and a Groom, born 1891 in Pickwell, Leics., John G., son, single and a Farm Worker, born 1894, Rose Annie, daughter, single and a Corset Factory Worker, born 1893, Ada Emily, daughter, single and a Corset Factory Worker, born 1895, Harold Edwin, son, single and a Schoolboy, born 1899, F. Walter, son, born 1904, Florence Ethel, daughter, born 1902, Charles Lewis, son, born 1905 and Gladys Edith, daughter, born 1907, the latter eight children were all born in Great Bowden, Leics.