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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Sub-Lieutenant
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Ottawa
Death:
September 13, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 8.
Additional information
Son of Athol C. Wright, and of Olive E. Wright, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
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Photo of Keith Wright
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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The Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) 21 Sept 1942 http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/48138642/ Following is the official casualty list of HMCS. Ottawa, lost through enemy action, according to announcement here today; MISSING BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION. '- 'Officers.. '... Wright Keith Francis, Sub.-Lieutenant (mother), Mrs. Athol C Wright 83 Grove Avenue, Ottawa -
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The Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) 21 Sept 1942 http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/48138642/ MISSING BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION. '- 'Officers.. '... Wright Keith Francis, Sub.-Lieutenant (mother), Mrs. Athol C Wright 83 Grove Avenue, Ottawa K. Wright's Mother Takes Loss Bravely Two Ottawa seamen and one from Renfrew are among those "missing, believed killed in action" as a result of the loss of the HMCS Ottawa, which was announced today. They are: Sub Lieut Keith Francis 'Wright, 22, of 83 Grove Avenue... Keith Francis Wright. - Part of "the price of Admiralty", of which, Kipling , wrote in his tribute to the Navy, was paid by brave Ottawa mother, who has all her four, sons in the services, when word was received on Friday that Sub-lieutenant Keith Francis Wright was reported "missing believed killed in action". Sub-lieutenant Wright is a son of the late Capt Athol C. Wright and Mrs. Wright 85- Grove Avenue, and was born in Ottawa 23 years ago. -
Memorial
St Matthew's Anglican Church Ottawa -
Photo of Keith Francis Wright
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Photo of Keith Francis Wright
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Grave marker
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of KEITH FRANCIS WRIGHT
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Attestation paper
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Grave marker
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Document
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Letter
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Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
Digital gallery of
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright
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Commemorated on:
Page 126 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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