Rushden Echo, 29th December, 1916, transcribed by Gill Hollis
Soldier Receives a Pleasing Gift
Sergt. Eddie Wright, Northants Regiment, now on an office staff in Egypt, son of Mr. Amos Wright, of Rushden, has received a gift from his Colonel for services rendered on the Peninsula. The Sergeant was ill in hospital when he received a silver cigarette case from his Colonel, engraved: “Presented to Sergt. E. Wright by his Colonel for bravery and devotion to duty and for personal services to myself on the Gallipoli Peninsula.”
Sergt. Wright was in Germany when the war broke out, and left the country on the last train for foreigners. He represented a leather firm in Germany. He joined the Army soon after arriving in England.
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Rushden Echo, 23rd November 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins
Honoured—Sergt. E Wright, Northants Regiment, of Rushden, has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war.
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