Name
George Knight
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1916
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
18298
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1
V. F. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials, Not on the Letchworth Garden City memorials*1
Pre War
George was born in Windsor, had a son, Stanley who was born c1906.
When he enlisted in Bedford, he was recorded as living in Stevenage.
Wartime Service
The Hertford Mercury of 29th January 1916 was reporting that George, "late of Stevenage, whom rumour, some time ago reported killed, had been home on leave from the trenches in France, where he has been for the last six months." At this time his wife and family were living in Letchworth. He returned to the trenches on the previous Tuesday.
He was killed in action on 16th November 1916.
Additional Information
*1 is also commemorated on his son’s grave in Letchworth Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CPL.
GEORGE KNIGHT.
KILLED IN FRANCE 16TH NOV. 1916, AGED 36 YEARS
George's son, Stanley Knight, did on active service in the Second World War in 1942, aged 34.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
