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In memory of:

Sergeant Arthur George Knight

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Victoria Cross (VC) Canada

Military service

Service number: 426402
Age: 32
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 10th Battalion
Birth: June 26, 1886 Haywards Heath, Sussex, England
Enlistment: December 19, 1914 Saskatchewan
Death: September 3, 1918

Burial/memorial information

DOMINION CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. F. 15.
Additional information

Son of Edward Henry Knight, of Mead Vale, Red Hill, England. Sgt Knight lived and worked as a carpenter in Regina, Saskatchewan before the war. A plaque has been erected at his former residence, 1843 Rae St. It is attached to an older apartment block. Two streets have been named in his honour, Knight and Sussex Crescents which are located in Coventry Park, a subdivision in west central Regina that was developed just after the Second World War. Coventry Park was named for the English cathedral city that took such a blasting from German bombers.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 443 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DOMINION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt is in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and 4 kilometres south of the Arras-Cambrai main road.

DOMINION CEMETERY is 2.5 kilometres north-east of the village, about 545 metres from the road.

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