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Keith Francis Wright

In memory of:

Sub-Lieutenant Keith Francis Wright

September 13, 1942

Military Service

Age:

22

Force:

Navy

Unit:

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Division:

H.M.C.S. Ottawa

Additional Information

Son of Athol C. Wright, and of Olive E. Wright, of Ottawa, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 126 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada

Grave Reference:

Panel 8.

Location:

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:

1914-1939
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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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    Newspaper Clipping – Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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  • Photo of KEITH FRANCIS WRIGHT– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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  • Photo of Keith Francis Wright– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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  • Photo of Keith Wright– Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me with the permission of McGill University from their web site, 'McGill Remembers'

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    Photo of Keith Wright – Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me with the permission of McGill University from their web site, 'McGill Remembers'
  • Memorial– St Matthew's Anglican Church Ottawa

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    Memorial – St Matthew's Anglican Church Ottawa
  • Newspaper Clipping– 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.

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    Newspaper Clipping – 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.
  • Newspaper Clipping– 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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    Newspaper Clipping – 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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