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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
Commanding Eatons Motor Battery
Birth:
April 23, 1882
Collingwood, Simcoe County, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 24, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 18.
Additional information
Son of Alfred and Katherine Knight. Husband of Margaret Allan Knight of Durham, Ontario
Digital gallery of Major Edward Lewin Knight
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Burial of Major Edward Knight
Original photo, showing the burial of Major Knight of the Eatons Machine Gun Battery, at the Somme in Sept, 1916. (Photo from donors collection). -
Detail from photo
Detail from photo showing the burial of Major Knight. -
Photo of Edward Lewin Knight
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Original newspaper photo showing the burial of Major Knight with the GV Memorial Cross awarded to his mother after his death. -
Memorial Cross
Reverse view of Memorial Cross -
Document
Excerpt from the War Diary detailing the death of Major Knight on September 26, 1916. -
Grave marker
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of EDWARD LEWIN KNIGHT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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