Brigadier-General Wallace Duffield Wright, VC, CB, CMG, DSO (20 September 1875 – 25 March 1953) was a British soldier and politician.

[2] He was awarded the India Medal with clasps for the Punjab Frontier and Tirah and was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1898.

On the 24th March, 1903, Lieutenant Wright, with only one [other] Officer and 44 men, took up a position in the path of the advancing enemy, and sustained the determined charges of 1,000 Horse and 2,000 Foot for two hours, and when the enemy, after heavy losses, fell back in good order, Lieutenant Wright continued to follow them up till they were in full retreat.

He in no way infringed his orders by his daring initiative, as, though warned of the possibility of meeting large bodies of the enemy, he had purposely been left a free hand.

[1] During the First World War he served in the Kamerun campaign in Central Africa from 1914–15 and in France from 1915–19, becoming a major in 1915, brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1916 and a colonel in 1919.