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Military service
Service number:
K/62178
Age:
30
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
July 8, 1944
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 13.
Additional information
Son of Henry Edmund and Catherine Beatrice Knight of Chemainus, British Columbia; husband of Mabel (née Thorneycroft) Knight, of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Two brothers, Eric and Leslie, were also with the Scottish.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Henry Knight
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Grave marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Henry Knight
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Henry Knight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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