3-052-452 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lieutenant I. D. Wright, R.A., 1880. 'The late Lieutenant Ichabod Denman Wright, R.A., who was killed in action at Jugdulluk on Dec. 29,...was gazetted to the Royal Artillery in April, 1873, and was at Aden and in India until the end of 1878, when he was sent home on sick leave. In September last he was offered a transfer into a battery stationed in England, but preferred to rejoin his own battery in India, and was sent out in command of draughts in the transport-ship Euphrates...After taking these to Peshawur, he was to have rejoined his battery at Mhow, but, being most anxious to see service, obtained permission to take the next detachment towards the front. He was shortly afterwards attached to the 11th Battery 9th Brigade, R.A., and was killed only three days after joining it. The particulars of his death have been related in a letter from Major J. M. Douglas, commanding the battery. He was buried the same evening outside the ramparts of the fort. His commanding officer, Major Douglas, who had only known him three days, speaks in the highest terms of his cheerfulness and zeal and his delight at the thought of seeing service, and says he was "a very good officer, and a great loss to his battery and to the regiment at large".' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.