In Embleton (Spitalford) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 15949/DA Deck Hand William Wright, serving with the Royal Naval Reserve who died 14/10/1918.

He was the son of Alexander and Lucy Wright, of Newton by the Sea, Lesbury, Northumberland and the husband of Ursula Georgina Wright, of Dunstan Hill, Craster, Alnwick, Northumberland.

The family headstone reads:

In Loving Memory
of
Lily Eveline,
youngest and dearly beloved
daughter of
Alexander & Lucy Wright,
who died Dec. 26, 1917, aged 15 years.

Also William their son, and beloved
husband of Ursula G. Wright,
Deck Hand, H.M.S. Harvest Moon,
who died Oct. 14, 1918, aged 30 years.

Also C.G.E. Wright, their son,
2nd Hand H.M.T. Eccleshill,
who died Oct. 20. 1918, aged 20 years,
interred at the Naval Cemetery, Gosport.

Also of Lucy, beloved wife of
Alexander Wright
of Newton by the Sea
who died April 1, 1933, aged 67 years.

Also of the above
Alexander Wright
who died Aug.17. 1934, aged 67 years.

David Thompson has submitted the following:-

William Wright was born about 1889, at Newton by the Sea, Embleton, Northumberland.

Pre-enlistment occupation:  Inshore Coast Fisherman.

Husband of Ursula Georgina Wright, of Dunstan Hill, Craster, Northumberland.

Died of pneumonia contracted as a result of active service.

His brother Cuthbert George Edwin died 20 October 1918.

William Wright is remembered at Embleton on E27.01 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.