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Military service
Service number:
54163
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
January 6, 1890
Birmingham, England
Enlistment:
January 12, 1915
London, Ontario
Death:
November 11, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Charles and L.A. Knight of Birmingham, England. Private George Samuel KNIGHT left with the first contingent. He was a son of Mr. Charles KNIGHT, of the General Post Office and a member of the Methodist Guards Brigade. A brother Frank was with G Company.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Knight
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Circumstances of Death Registers
"Killed in Action" Killed by concussion from a shell. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo taken September 2018
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Knight, George: Service no. 54163. “Killed in Action” Killed by concussion from a shell. Source: Operation Picture Me via The 18th Battalion Facebook Group. London Free Press Circa 1916 Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Knight
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Knight
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Knight
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Knight
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Knight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 269 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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