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Pte. Charles W. Knight
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
(d.15th Nov 1915)
Charles Knight was executed for murder 15/11/1915 age 28 and buried in Le Grand Hasard Military Cemetery, Morebecque, France.
Pte. Charles William Knight
British Army 8th (Post Office Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Bethnal Green
Charles Knight signed up in 1913 and when the war broke out in 1914 was eager to serve his country. My Grandfather, his much younger brother, remembers cheering and watching the soldiers marching through London to the station. Charlie was injured on the first day of the Battle of Loos with a gunshot wound to the head, however, he bounced back and was in service again without being sent home, a lucky shot I suppose as his regiment suffered heavy losses that day to be hit in the head and get up again was typical of him! He continued fighting until he was injured again during the Battle of the Somme at High Wood when he received a gunshot wound to the groin on the 15th of September 1916. He was sent home on the 22nd of September 1916 where he made a recovery and married his sweetheart, Evelyn.
My grandfather could never understand why Charles and Evie hadn't had children despite knowing she longed for them, it would appear that his now released war records show that although he was one of the lucky ones that escaped with his life, he did not return unscathed. He was 17 when he signed up for service and by the age of 20 had suffered two significant injuries, the last severe enough to end his service with two years of the war still to run. I can only feel immensely proud of him and of my grandfather who went on to also be severely injured in WW2 when he served as a Desert Rat.
Sgt. Christopher James Knight
British Army 5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
Jim Knight was my Grandfather and he fought at Hohenzollern Redoubt, I was told as a young lad he should have been decorated for his bravery but due to the loss of all but one of the officers he was never awarded anything. I have in my possession a wonderful collection of his war service including photographs of reunion dinners, embroidery done when he was in the military hospital twice, once gassed then shrapnel wounds. All his life he kept in touch with his old comrades and November the 11th was always so special to him. I can remember him saying "they were only bains you know" and he said when he arrived to Barton station it was the most tragic day in his life, as all the mothers waiting wanting to know how their sons had died.
Pte. Con. Knight
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Dipton
Cyril E. Knight
British Army 2nd London Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.4th April 1915)
Cyril Knight served with the 2nd London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
84th Field Ambulance, 28th Division, B. E. F. April 7th, 1915.
Dear Mrs. Knight,
My deepest sympathy goes out to you on the loss of your son C.E. Knight, and to this I honestly add my regret at the loss of such an excellent hard-working man from my Section. I was his Section officer, and as such venture to offer you my sympathy and that of the whole unit. If anything can lessen your grief, the knowledge that he gave his life in an endeavour to assist his comrades who were wounded and needing help may do so. On Sunday night at 20 to 10 the Germans began shelling the town in which we have been living and working for the last two months, and though we lived in a hospital two shells struck us. Your son had left the room just before the first shell struck it, and was outside; but, on hearing the first shell strike and hearing cries of distress, he rushed up the staircase to be of assistance, and the second shell struck him, killing him instantly and also the comrade (named Boyes) whom he was assisting. I need hardly say that all his comrades and all the Field Ambulance honour him for his bravery, and regret his loss more than words can express. Personally I am proud to have been his Section officer, and can only say that he did all and everything connected with his work that any man could do, and did it well. Moreover, he was very much loved as a comrade. I tender my fellow officers and all his comrades sympathy to you.
Yours faithfully, Reginald E. Bickerton, Capt. R.A.M.C.
Pte. Edward George James Knight
British Army 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Wydon Farm, Minehead
(d.20th Sep 1917)
My great uncle on my father’s side Ted Knight was a member of the 15th Hampshires. He was killed on 20th of September 1917 at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge (Ypres). His remains were never recovered, and his father David always questioned his death. I was able to find his name on the Memorial at Tyne Cot.
Bkr2. Edward Knight
Merchant Marine Reserve HMS Bayano
(d.11th Mar 1915)
Edward Knight was born on Belvedere, Kent in 1887 On the 1911 Census he is living at 18 Florence Road, Abbey Wood, with his parents, George Binfield & Caroline Knight nee Ayers. Edward joined the Merchant Marine and still had that status at time of death.
Pte. Edward Knight
British Army 18th Btn London Regiment
from:Ealing, London
(d.8th April 1917)
My Great Uncle Ted Knight joined up with his younger brother Oscar Albert Knight (who joined the Royal Fusiliers and died on the 15th of September 1916). The family believes that he and his brother died within the same month as one another but we are unable to find Edward listed on the War Graves Commission site. We have his medals, still boxed, and with their pristine ribbons unattached, but as yet have been unable to find where he is commemorated.
Editors note: Edward is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Sjt. Ernest James Knight
British Army 312th Bde. D Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Portsmouth
(d.26th May 1917)
Ernest James H Knight { who is my great uncle} son of Levi and Helen Knight and husband of Emily Knight of 284 Somers Road, Portsmouth was killed on 26th May 1917 aged 28. The camouflage neting around the field gun caught fire and it spread to the stack of shells, were they exploded and killed Ernest and the rest of his men. He is layed to rest at Hac Cemetery, Ecoust-st-Mein.
Pte. George Knight
British Army 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Portsmouth
(d.15th Sept 1916)
George Knight was our great uncle on our dad's side. His brother, Sgt, Ernest James Knight, was killed in action on 26th May 1917.
Lt. Gerald Featherstone Knight
Royal Flying Corps
Gerald Knight was a prisoner at Strohen, Clausthal and Osnabruck POW camps. He escaped on 16th August 1917 and reached freedom in Holland.
Pte. Harry James Knight
British Army 1st Btn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:West Croydon, Surrey
(d.6th Oct 1918)
Harry Knight served with The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment 1st Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 6th October1918 and is buried in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France. He was the son of Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Knight, of 2, Lower Addiscombe Road, West Croydon, Surrey.
Pte. Harry John Knight
British Army 1st Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regt.
from:Newport, Monmouthshire
My Grandfather Harry Knight served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment in the 1st Battalion. I know no details of his Service other than that he was a Prisoner of War, he escaped at least twice, was re captured and tortured. He was missing in action but later my grandmother was at the cinema one day & on the Newsreel a film was being shown of British POW's in Germany. She thought she saw him on the film. She told family members who then went themselves to see the film, they agreed it was him so they then went to see the cinema manager who showed then the film privately, when the film reached the point where they thought they saw my Grandfather the film was stopped. It was agreed by all that indeed it was him. Subsequently he was traced via the Red Cross.
Harry returned home but sadly he was a very sick man, by 1921 he was admitted to St. Cadocs Psychiatric Hospital in Caerleon Monmouthshire where he died in 1960. Originally from Croydon, Surrey Harry had moved to Newport Monmouthshire around 1905/6. He met & married my Grandmother there. He had been in the West Surrey Regiment for a while around 1902/3. Although on his birth cert. His name is Harry John Knight, officialdom has recorded him as Henry which is confusing.
Pte. James Albert Edward Knight
British Army 21st (First Surrey Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Greenwich
Prior to the war James Knight was a bare knuckle prizefighter (the grandson of Tom Sayers the famous pugilist). He must have been pretty fit and a true survivor and probably a bit of a loner as I sense he was not a fan of discipline or being told what to do.
He joined the 1st Surrey Rifles by accident I think, as a group of them went up together to join up and some went into the 1st and others were taken into a different part of the The 21st London Regiment, it may have been The Greenwich Rifles. He recalled it as a real setback as later he was to say that when he led young fresh troops up to the front he didn’t really care, but if he heard that “One of the old boys" had been killed it would demoralise him for days.
He decided to become a messenger as he was sick of being in mud and water for days on end. He delivered dispatches on foot as he couldn’t ride a motorbike. Messengers did not have a very long lifespan, but they were treated well, and given food and or dry clothes when they delivered a message.
Back to the motorbike. One day a shell fell and injured a dispatch rider, the bike fell to the side but was still ticking over, Pte. Knight and a couple of the others had never driven anything mechanical before so they drew straws as to who would try and take the message, James drew the short straw, asked the rider how to make it work then hopped on, rode off and finally reached his destination, unfortunately he hadn’t been told how to stop and the inevitable happened and he just jumped off letting the bike collide into a trench much to the disgust of the waiting small crowd of soldiers at the end.
We heard a few other stories. He told me about the first time he saw a Tank which in those days were top secret and in hindsight I could still see how impressed he was by the vision of these mechanical monoliths crawling over the ground. James Knight was a tiny thin, austere looking man (about 5’4) but always had a presence about him. I am glad to say our Grandfather was one of the “few” who survived the war and was awarded The Pip, Squeak and Wilfred medals, The 1914 – 1915 Star, British War Medal, and The Victory Medal. My uncle told me he was also awarded a Croix De Guerre but this I can't confirm as many War records for Privates were lost during the second world war bombing of London. In 1915 he was injured by a mortar and sent home due to his injuries.
After the war he led a very ordinary life as a driver of horse-drawn carriages, his eyesight deteriorated quite prematurely at the age of around 40 probably due to all the nerve damage he sustained during his boxing matches. He died peacefully in Greenwich Hospital in London at the age of 83 near his little flat and about 100 meters from where he went to school.
I think his War experience was the only time he had ever spent abroad. Shortly after the war he was invited by the French but he said “I couldn’t be bothered” which about sums the man up. He died with pieces of shrapnel still in his hip I was told.
Pte. James Knight
British Army 1/7th Battalion West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons)
James Knight's Victory and British Medals ended up in the possession of a grandson of a Canadian WWI veteran. Nothing is known about the connection between the soldiers. James Knight's records are part of the First World War Service Burnt Documents so little is known of him. An address of 116 Old Church Road, Stepney, E1 was given on the 2nd page of his Medal Card. And some details of his service were given such as additional service with Army Service Corps, and Labour Corps.
Oscar Albert Knight
British Army 32nd (East Ham) Btn. Royal Fusiliers
(d.15th September 1916)
Oscar Knight served with the 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in WW1. He died 15th of September 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
Pte. Reginald Josiah Knight
British Army 5th Batallion Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Blandford, Dorset
My Grandfather Reginald Knight served in the 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, joining the unit in 1914. He fought in France and was gassed in 1916 and was repatriated to UK. He lived until 1975.
Pte. Richard Thomas Knight
British Army 1st Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Pontefract, Yorkshire
Due to several step-siblings in the family, grandad, Richard Knight left to join up when he was still underage, we believe at 16 years old, which was reached in September 1915. He served in Palestine, which makes me think he was with the 1st Battalion. He had no Scottish connection but a theory is that recruits were placed where numbers were low, hence he joined the Seaforth Highlanders.
Pte. T. Knight
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Rflmn Thomas Knight
British Army 1/8th Btn. West Yorks Regiment
from:Monk Bretton, Barnsley
(d.12th Oct 1917)
Thomas Knight died of wounds received at the Battle of Poelcappelle, aged 38. He is buried at Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinghe, Belgium.
Pte. Thomas Knight
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
My Uncle, Thomas Knight was a member of the YCV. He was in the band when WW1 broke out. He became a member of the 14th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles He was born 1896 in Belfast Northern Ireland, home address Willow Bank Drive, Belfast. He died 1934 due to being Gassed in the war.
I'm the last of my family still alive now and am 92 years old. I have a photo of my uncle in his uniform (YCV), also a photo of the members of Band Drums and Bugles
2nd Class Stoker William John Knight
Navy HMS Amphion
from:Forder, St Stephen's, Saltash
(d.6th August 1914)
My great uncle K/21305 William John Knight, 2nd class stoker served and died aboard HMS Amphion. He was from Forder, St. Stephen's, Saltash and was 20 years old.
Pte. William Albert Knight
British Army 1st Btn. South Staffordshire
from:107 Winfield Street, Rugby, Warwickshire
(d.13th May 1917)
I am a member of the Rugby Family History Group researching some of the men whose names are on the Rugby War Memorial Gates. One of these is William Albert Knight, named as Albert in the 1901 census.
He was born in Northampton in 1895, the second of the four children of George Walter and Sarah Dudley (nee Markham) who were married in Northampton in 1892. They were living at 6 Richmond Street, but moved to Rugby some years later, probably when their eldest son started work, and were at 107 Winfield Street in 1911. By this time their father was an invalid, but Albert and his brother George were working for British Thompson Houston (BTH) in Rugby as respectively capstan hand and armature winder.
Albert enlisted in Rugby before conscription was introduced as his medal card states he was sent to France in December 1915. His Regiment was heavily involved in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and he was probably killed in the Action at Bullecourt on 13 May 1917, although he may have been wounded prior to this as he was buried at Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, which from April 1917 according to the CWGC had been occupied by a couple of Casualty Clearing Stations.
He is commemorated on the BTH memorial in Rugby as well as the Memorial Gates.
Sgt. William Ernest Knight
Canadian Army Canadian Army Medical Corps
from:Sarnia, ON
Grandfather, William Knight was a Pharmacist and served on Hospital ships Letitia, Araguaya and Llandovery Castle as well as with 13th Field Ambulance in France. I have his diary from January 1916 to October 1918 which I hope to turn over to National Archives.
Pte. William Knight
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Gotherington
(d.7th Dec 1915 )
Pte. William Knight
British Army 14th Btn. Essex Regiment
(d.23rd Aug 1918)
William Knight was born in Essex and signed up right at the beginning of WW1, only to lose his life just a few months before it ended.
Pte. Arthur William James Knightbridge
British Army 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Maldon, Essex
(d.31st July 1917)
Sgt. Horace Charles Ernest Knightly
British Army 15th Brigade, "A" Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Hackney, London
(d.22nd Mar 1918)
I am trying to find any information on my great uncle Horace Knightly, who died in WW1. I have no idea when he joined the army and cannot find him in the 1911 Census when he would have been about 28 (born 1883). He registered his mother's death in 1914 from an address in Hackney where he lived when he married in London in 1917.
Any help in finding out anything at all would be greatly appreciated.
Update: Thanks to a very helpful lady, I now know that in 1911 Horace was serving in India.
Pte. W. Knighton
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Fencehouses
W Knighton was wounded in 1916
Bmbdr. James Benjamin Knights
British Army 272 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Lowestoft
James Knights served with 272nd Brigade RFA.
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