Thomas (Tom) ENRIGHT

ENRIGHT, Thomas

Service Number: W243808
Enlisted: 25 July 1940
Last Rank: Staff Sergeant
Last Unit: Royal Australian Army Dental Corps
Born: Northam, Western Australia, 19 August 1896
Home Town: Mount Hawthorn, Vincent, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Dental Mechanic
Died: Injuries motor vehicle accident, Hollywood Military Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia , 10 October 1943, aged 47 years
Cemetery: Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia
Burial reference: - Plot G, Row C, Grave 5. Personal Inscription: - "THY WILL BE DONE".
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement W243808
25 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, W243808
17 Nov 1941: Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, Royal Australian Army Dental Corps , Died from injuries received in car accident.

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: -  John Enright and Elizabeth Pickett

Wife: - Laura Willis married 1939 in Dundas, Western Australia. (Occupation Dental Nurse)

Court of Inquiry convened 30th November 1943 concluded Staff Sergeant Thomas Enright died as a result of injuries sustained in a  motor vehicle accident. 

Type of injuries noted as ruptured bladder, fractured pelvis and tibular in right thigh, resulting in heart failure. He was on leave when the accident occurred on 8th October 1943 at the corner of Glyde St and Stirling Highway, Mosman Park. The driver of the car in which he was a passenger, was his brother in law Sergeant Richard Turpin.

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