John Crosby Wright
John Crosby Wright (1891-1917)
1917 Obituary [1]
LIEUTENANT JOHN CROSBY WRIGHT, born on the 3rd December, 1891, was killed in action on the 10th April, 1917.
He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Great Crosby, and later at Liverpool University, where he passed his final examination for B. Eng. immediately prior to the war. While at the University he served for some years as a sapper in the R.F.A., and on the outbreak of war was granted a commission in the R.G.A., with the 1/1 Lancashire Heavy Battery, proceeding to France towards the end of 1915. His Commanding Officer, in conveying to his parents the news of his death, speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Wright's ability and clearness of decision, his coolness and resource under heavy fire and of his personal character and devotion to duty. He was struck by a machine gun bullet and died practically instantaneously.
Mr. Wright was elected a Student of the Liverpool Engineering Society on the 29th November, 1911.