Born at Dumfries, Scotland.
Enlisted at Bristol on the 2nd of January 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Killed in action at Inkerman on the 5th of November 1854, (said to have been by a round-shot hitting him in the head.)
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
(He is named as "George Wright" on the Gazette "Casualty Roll", as "T. Wright" on the medal and clasp rolls and as "Robert Thomas Wright" by Lummis and Wynn. )
Further detailed medal information archived.
Extract from the memoirs of R.S.M. Loy Smith, published in 1987 under the title of "A Victorian R.S.M." Referring to the Light Brigade at the battle of Inkerman, his regiment being concealed behind a hill, he wrote:
"We had halted about 200 yards from the top. The enemy must have known we were there, for they dropped their cannon-balls just over the brow of the hill so that they passed through us about breast-high.
One, after striking a horse's head and knocking it to pieces, took off another man's arm.
It then struck Private Wright, who was riding a Russian horse, full in the chest, passing through him. He fell out of the saddle close to my horse's feet. His horse then galloped away and we never saw it again."