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Pte. John Knox
British Army 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.14th Jul 1916)
John Knox was serving with the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, when he died on 14th July 1916, he was 22 years old. Born in Hebburn Colliery in 1894, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Knox (nee Clayton) of 14 Station Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census John Knox age 13 Newsboy at School is listsed as living with his widowed mother Elizabeth Knox and family at 94 Western Road, Jarrow. He lived in Newcastle and enlisted in Jarrow.
John is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Michael Knox
British Army 5th Btn Royal Irish Regiment
My Grandfather, Michael Knox, served in WW1. He was born on 3rd of October 1882 in Waterford, Ireland and later moved to Wales were he got married to Ellen Young. We believe he served in the Army in 1914/15. Due to his service he was granted a land in Busselton, Western Australia, and moved there with his wife and children in 1925.
Pte. Ralph Knox
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.14th May 1915)
Ralph Knox was killed during fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, he is buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery.
Capt. Richard Knox
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
Captain Richard Knox was apparently my grandfather. I am 64 yrs old now and have gone through life assuming my mother was illegitimate as granny never spoke of a husband. But I came across my mother's wedding certificate which had Richard Knox as her father. I would be most grateful if someone out there could point me in the right direction to find out more about him.
Pte. Thomas Knox
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Byker
Thomas Knox was wounded in 1916
Sgt. William Urwin Clifford Knox
Canadian Expeditionary Force Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
from:Ontario, Canada
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
William Urwin Clifford Knox served with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was born in Jarrow 19th of September 1885 and died 23rd October 1918 aged 33. He enlisted in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada and was the husband of W. U. Knox of 2349 Esplanade Avenue, Montreal and son of George Urwin and Catherine Ann Knox (nee Clifford) of 22 James Street Thornaby on Tees.
William is buried in Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery.
Pte. William Knox
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Leamside
(d.1st July 1916)
William Knox is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. Verner Gladders Knuckey
Australian Imperial Force 8th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Royal Flying
from:Australia
Verner Gladders Knuckey was born at Cobar, New South Wales on 8th July 1886. When he enlisted, he listed his profession as a clerk in the Commonwealth Treasury and was living in East Malvern, Victoria. Knuckey had previously spent two years with the Light Horse Regiment before enlisting as a Private with the 8th Light Horse Regiment on 16th July 1915.
Knuckey left Melbourne for Egypt on 10th November 1915 aboard HMAT Ascanius. Since the Light Horse Regiment was considered unsuitable for the initial operations at Gallipoli, they were deployed without their horses. The 8th Light Horse Brigade formed the first two waves for the disastrous attack on the Nek on 7th August 1915 and left the Gallipoli Peninsula on 20th December.
Knuckey returned to Egypt and with the 8th Light Horse Brigade defended the Suez Canal and participated in the advance which eventually turned the Turks at Romani. In January 1917 Knuckey volunteered for the 2nd Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps in Egypt as an electrician because he wanted to see England and France. He later trained as a wireless operator. The 2nd Squadron was initially drawn from 67 Australian Squadron and supplemented by volunteers from the light horse regiments from Australia. From England Knuckey went to France on 6th May 1918 before returning back to England in February 1919. Verner Knuckey returned to Australia on 23rd September 1919.
Lt. George Hilfers Koch
Australian Imperial Force 9th Battalion
from:Kelvin Grove
My grandfather, George Koch served with his 3 brothers at Gallipoli, Ypres, and the Somme. He was admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth in 1915, 1917, and 1918. He had also served in the Boer War.
Burgher H. B.J. Kock
South African Forces Vryheid Commando Mounted Commandos
(d.9th December 1914)
Burgher Kock is buried in the Kestell Road Station Burial Ground, Free State, South Africa
Pte. John William Koekemoer
South African Infantry 6th Regt.
from:Son of Mr.W.S.Koekemoer, of Dallium, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province.
(d.22nd April 1917)
Private Koekemoer was the Son of Mr.W.S.Koekemoer, of Dallium, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province.
He was 20 and is buried in the Graaff-Reinet Old Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Peter Kohnke
Australian Imperial Force 37th Bty. Australian Field Artillery
Peter Kohnke served with 37th Battery, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force during WW1. The 37th Battery was part of the Australian 4th Division Artillery Group.
The 4th Division began forming in Egypt in February 1916. The new division included the 4th Infantry Brigade, 4th Field Company, 4th Field Ambulance and 7th Army Service Corps Company which had fought at Gallipoli. The 12th and 13th Infantry Brigades were formed by taking half the personnel of the 4th and 3rd Infantry Brigades. The division was initially stationed on the Suez Canal.
In June 1916 it moved to France, taking over part of the "nursery" sector near Armentieres. Its stay there was brief and soon it was accompanying the First and Second Divisions to the Somme sector. In August 1916 it relieved the Second Division on the Pozieres Heights and repulsed a major German counterattack. It then drove north to the outskirts of Mouquet Farm. A second tour of the Somme at Mouquet Farm followed in September and a third at Flers in October.
On 11 April 1917 the division assaulted the Hindenburg Line in the First Battle of Bullecourt. The battle was a disaster and 1170 Australian prisoners were taken by the Germans. In June it participated in the Battle of Messines. In September it participated in the Battle of Polygon Wood.
In March 1918 the division was rushed to the Somme region to stem the German Offensive. There it repulsed the advancing Germans in hard fought battles at Hebuterne and Dernancourt. In April its 13th Infantry Brigade was involved in the counterattack at Villers-Bretonneux.
The division went on to fight in the Battle of Hamel, Battle of Epehy (with distinction), Battle of Amiens and the Hindenburg Line, finally reaching the town of Bellenglise.
Sgt Filip Konowal
Canadian Army 77th Canadian Infantry Battalion
from:Ukraine
Cpl Filip Konowal VC
Canadian Infantry 47th Battalion
from:Canada
Pte. James Alexander Krasse
Ceylon Light Infantry
(d.20th August 1914)
Private Krasse is buried in Prot. 635 in the Kandy Civil Cemetery in Sri Lanka
Temp. 2nd Lt. Dirk Jacobus Kruger
British Army 23rd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Middelburg, Cape Province, South Africa
(d.1st Apr 1918)
Pte. J. C. Kruger
South African Forces Britstown Commando Mounted Commandos,
(d.5th December 1914)
Private Kruger is buried in the Kakamas Dutch Reformed Cemetery, Northern Cape, South Africa.
Sgt. Arthur William Kruse MM.
British Army 31st Battalion Machine Gun Corps
Born in 1882, the son of Cord Heinrich Kruse, a German immigrant and wine merchant, Arthur Kruse was very much a London boy growing up in Harlesden. Arthur joined the YMCA in 1904, aged 21, and married his childhood sweetheart, who was his next door neighbour's daughter, Ada M Matthews, who were a family of hatters, in 1912. They had a very long and, I believe, very happy marriage. He was an active member of the YMCA both before and after his wartime service. The Sunderland Echo newspaper wrote up his 50 years of membership in 1954. During his time as Secretary of Herrington Burn YMCA, and of the Sunderland Association, he shrewdly invited Mr. R Gurney (then Sunderland Centre Forward) as a supporting guest speaker in 1936.
His German heritage did not prevent him from answering Kitchener's call to arms for long but this might have done as he was 33 years old when he enlisted on 23rd of November 1915. He was transferred into the Machine Gun Corps in mid-April 1917. I believe that his army number, 98543, falls within a group of men who all came from Battersea and Balham.
My grandmother, Dorothy Ingmire (nee Bonner) was brought up by her Matthews family Aunts and Arthur Kruse gave her away at her wedding to my grandfather Gordon Ingmire. There are three anecdotes that my father, David Ingmire, told us about Arthur.
Arthur had dropped his particularly treasured shaving kit during a move through no-mans land. As well as complaining about this incident, his fondness for the item was well known to his men. He must have been quite a popular chap as, the following morning, the retrieved shaving kit was presented to him simply with a "There you go sarge!". One of the men had been out in the dark to retrace their steps through no-man's land to find it.
The second story was that, when he won his Military Medal (it is not known exactly what it was for or where he won it)' he was very saddened because he had lost two of his ammunition feeders to enemy fire but continued to keep the gun in action.
Records of the 14th Field Ambulance show that he was wounded on or about 28th June 1918 in the left shoulder and right arm. He was actually not shot by the Germans on this occasion but by a British sentry. He had captured a German soldier and was bringing him back at gun-point to the British trench. As they neared the trench, the German started acting up the and the British sentry, thinking that they were both Germans, shot and hit Arthur. Wounded in the both arms, he could not hold his rifle, so told the prisoner that he had best be off!
Whilst away at the trenches, a window at home was broken with a brick because of his German name and once, when he was on leave, he was sitting outside a cafe and was handed a white feather (for cowardice) by a lady who should have known better. He politely handed the feather back to her and told her that he did not need it.
He was discharged on account of wounds on 24th September 1919, aged 36 years 8 months and was awarded Silver War Badge No 03106 which was sent to him on 22nd December 1919.
Gnr. Robert Kuhler MM
British Army 361st Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Brighton
(d.16th Oct 1917)
Robert Kuhler was my Grandfather. He was born in Lodz, Poland and married my Grandmother on 2 March 1911 in London. They later moved to Paris before returning to England and living in Brighton. He enlisted in the army on 13 September 1916 and was posted to 361 Seige Battalion.The Military Medal was awarded to Robert Kuhler for acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire - he was also entitled to the Victory medal and the British War medal but was unfortunately killed in action on 16th October 1917 and is buried in Zuydcote military cemetery,
Sgt. Kumani
British Army 1st Btn. Kings African Rifles
from:Africa
On 7th of October 1914, Colour-Sergeant Kumani of the 1st Battalion, Kings African Rifles won the Distinguished Conduct Medal in a Battle at Gazi for his bravery in leading his company in a charge after all his officers had been shot down, and drawing off the enemy.
E. Kursacoff
from:Jarrow
(d.WW1)
E. Kursacoff is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Mjr. Richard Kurt
German Army II/IR 83
(d.6th Aug 1914)
Dvr. Joseph Michael Kurtin
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Planet St, Stepney, London
Joseph Kurtinaitis (Kurtin) joined up in 1915 with his friend Antanas Baukis from the next street. They lived in Stepney, near Whitechapel, London. They were both second generation Lithuanians whose parents had all come from Russia in the early 1890s. He spoke Lithuanian, English, Polish and some Yiddish as well as some French learned at school at St Ignatious College in Stamford Hill. These names can be a problem in records as they were in the process of being Anglicised by the second generation but Kurtin was the name on his Will. Anthony (Antanas) went to another unit and was later killed in action.
He became a driver in the Royal Field Artillery carrying ammunition up to the guns somewhere in Northern France. He mentioned Flanders on the rare occasions he spoke to anyone about it. He mentioned a few horrific things to his grandson back in the 50s. He died in 1963 at the relatively young age of 66 from Parkinson's which we think was brought on by a blow to the head on the Western front.
He was responsible for two black horses, named 'Cherry Blossom, and 'Boot Polish'. He used to walk between these two horses for protection so I imagine he was carrying a small amount of shells each time over rough ground up to the guns. He had some narrow escapes including a bullet which passed through the ear of one of the horses (making a hole). I get the impression that he also drove a wagon. So little information - I wish I had asked him more questions. I would dearly love to know absolutely everything about his war record - where he was exactly, where he joined up, where he did his training etc. Is there any more information out there?
Pte. Hyman Kurtzman
British Army 1st/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Edinburgh
(d.15th September 1916)
Corporal Hyman Kurtzman, the brother of William Mack DCM. (Family changed name to Coutts/Mack) 1st/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, born at Edinburgh in 1897, was the son of Barnet Maurice Kurtzman, a shoemaker, and Esther Sander Kurtzman, of Ashley Buildings, High Street, Edinburgh, then 71 Rose Street, Glasgow, and later 24 Waverley Buildings, Edinburgh.
He enlisted at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916, age 19, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Pte. Cecil Frederick Kybird
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
When I asked my grandfather, Cecil Kybird, about the war as a boy, he just said there was a lot of mud! Recently I received information from the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum about my grandfather.
"From references in our records we hold in the collection I am pleased to say that we can provide the following information. From a Casualty Book which lists wounds and sickness: Pte C F Kybird, 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment was treated for Seborrhoea 27.4.1917 at Boulogne. Effects of Gas 15.5.1918. admitted to Field Ambulance then treated for Gas and Shell wound at No. 2 Canadian Hospital, Rouen 21.10.1918. From the 9th Battalion war diary he is listed as wounded, Gas at Ypres Canal Iron Bridge May 1918 and Wounded in Action in October 1918."
Ypres Iron Bridge was a bridge over the Ypres - Comines Canal. It was 2 km south of the Ypres Lille Gate, very close to the road running south of Ypres to St.Eloi, the canal was never used due to problems with making the ground stable.
Cpl. Alston Kyle
British Army D Special Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Strathaven
(d.28th Jun 1916)
Educated Strathaven Academy and Glasgow Technical Collage gaining first class certificate in chemistry, Alston Kyle served at the Battle of Loos. After serving 11 months he was expecting to be home on leave when the news was broken to his family that he had died from gas poisoning. Where or when this happened we don't know but his date of death is recorded as 28th of June 1916.
Pte. G. Kyle
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Rflmn. J. Kyle
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.28th June 1916)
Rifleman Kyles was the son of Samuel and Agnes Kyle, Castle Street, Antrim.
He died on 28th June 1916 and was buried in Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval, Grave VI.C.5.
L/Cpl. James Kyle
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.17th Apr 1915)
Pte James Kyle
British Army 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment
from:Derry, Londonderry
(d.9th September 1916)
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