Alexander George Bright

Memorial: Hanham - High Street

Regiment: 4th Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 16614

Parents: William and Hester Bright

Home address: Carlton Villa, 101 High Street, Hanham, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Worked for the Bristol Tramway Company

Date of birth: 1892

Place of birth: Hanham, Bristol

Date of death: 17/02/1917

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated on at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial, Hanham High Street Memorial and Hanham Methodist Memorial

Age: 25

Further information:

Alexander was born in Hanham the son of a bootmaker and a middle child of ten children with three sisters and six brothers. In 1911 Alexander was working as a collier but immediately pre-war he worked on the trams.

Alexander joined up with one of his younger brothers on the outbreak of war whilst a second brother also saw active service. In November 1915 Alexander’s battalion (the 22nd) was mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and as part of the 2nd Division were engaged in various actions on the Western front. He was wounded in August of 1916 during The Battle of Delville Wood and came home but returned to the front in November. Alexander lost his life three months later during Operations on the Ancre (11 January – 13 March 1917) which was a British Victory at the cost of over 2000 casualties. Alexander was initially reported as missing which was later changed to killed in action although his body was never found. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, where Alexander is remembered, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and who have no known grave.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

With kind permission of Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
Kingswood Heritage Museum