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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 412

Pair: Acting Warrant Officer Class II R. A. Wright, 14th Battalion (Birmingham Pals), Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action in 1918

British War and Victory Medals (662 A. W.O. Cl. 2. R. A. Wright. R. War. R.), good very fine (2)

Robert Alban Wright was born at Bedford, the son of Martha and Reverend Alban Booth, a missionary and the organising secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Unfortunately, his parents died whilst he was still young and the young Wright found himself at the Clergy Orphan School for Boys, St Thomas Hill, Canterbury.

He was living at Shirley, Warwickshire prior to enlisting at Birmingham and entered the war at some stage after 1915 with the 'C' Company, 1st Birmingham Pals. Wright proved brave under fire, being treated for a gunshot wound to the hip in 1916 with the rank of Sergeant.

Wright was still serving with this unit when the German Spring Offensive began in March 1918, his battalion saw heavy, continuous fighting until he was killed in action on 13 April 1918. He is buried at Merville Communal Cemetery Extension. Wright was survived by a number of elder siblings, notably Governor Arthur Alban Wright, C.M.G. (whose medals were sold in these rooms on 27 November 2025); sold together with several riband bars which do not appear to relate to the recipient and a photograph.

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£40