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He was baptized Jacques Gérald Enright. Son of Dr. William James Enright and Margaret Johanne Doyle of Frampton, Dorchester, Quebec. Husband of Mary G. Begley, of Brentford, Middlesex, England.
Dr. Enright enlisted as a Lieutenant Surgeon on 28 June 1915 at Quebec City, Quebec, regimental number 07137, with the Canadian Army Medical Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Transferred to the 22nd French-Canadian Battalion, he served in France, where he was wounded in action on 29 September 1915. Treated in England, he returned to France on 3 December 1917 with the Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS). Ill and promoted to major, on 27 June 1918 he lost his life when the hospital ship HS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed by U-86.
His brother, Gerard Redmond Enright Sr (1908-1985) was conscripted into the US Army on 16 October 1940, service number 1073, but did not see action.
S.S. Proteus (collier) disappeared without a trace on 23 November 1941 in the Bermuda triangle.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 132 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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