Mexborough and Swinton Times August 6 1937

Formerly Of Wombwell

Rev A.J. Wright Dies in Canada

The death has occurred in Shaughnessy military hospital, Vancouver Island, of the Rev Arthur John Wright (45) at one time stationed in Wombwell, and husband of Adela, second daughter of Mr Charles Binns, and the late Mrs Binns, of High Street Wombwell. He had been ill for many months.

The Rev Arthur J Wright first met his wife when he was stationed at Wombwell as an officer in the Church Army.

In the Great War he served in the Canadian regiment and was later was accepted into the Church of England ministry in the Dominion, where he has lived and worked for about 20 years. For eight years he was in a post on the Peace River, Saskatchewan.

Mrs Wright, who was at one time actively associated with Wombwell Parish Church, is left with six children, and the family are now engaging fruit farming.

Six members of Mr Wright’s old regiment, the “Princess Pal,” were bearers at the interment in the Return Soldiers Plot, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver.