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BORN 15 May 1883
DIED 14 September 1914 AGE 67
VC Won 23 August & 14 September 1914 AGE 31
Place VC Won Mons Belgium & Vailly France
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name Theodore Wright No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 526 Awards VC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 57th Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Brighton, West Sussex, England
Place Of Death Vailly-sur-Aisne, Aisne, France
Buried/Location Ashes Vailly British Cemetery, Vailly-sur-Aisne, 10 miles east of Soissons, Aisne, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 2, Row B, Grave 21
Gazetted 16 November 1914
VC Presented 16 November 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Vailly British Cemetery, Vailly-sur-Aisne, 10 miles east of Soissons, Aisne, France
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent
P Named on war memorial, St Peter’s & St Paul’s Church, Albury, Surrey
P Named on memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
Named on memorial board, Lords cricket ground, St Johns Wood, N.W. London
P Named on war memorial, Clifton College, Bristol
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Old Steine Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex
By The Way…
He was a career soldier joining the army in 1902
VC Held By
Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England
