Canadian Virtual War Memorial
James Gerald Enright
In memory of:
Third Mate James Gerald Enright
November 23, 1941
Caribbean Sea
Military Service
30
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Proteus (Montréal, Québec) (173244)
Additional Information
September 28, 1911
Port Daniel, Bonaventure, Quebec
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.
Commemorated on Page 132 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 17.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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