Name
Sidney Herbert Knight
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8025
London Regiment *1
19th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot III, Row E, Grave 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford, Islington Borough Book of Remembrance, London
Pre War
Son of Caroline (nee HORROD) KNIGHT of Watford, and the late George KNIGHT.
His parents married 1880 in the Islington, London, district. George died 1901 in the Edmonton, Middx, district aged 63; Caroline died 1919 in the Hackney, London, district aged 70.
Sidney was born 1893 in the Islington district, and resided in Haringay, Middx.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in West Green, Middx, with his widowed mother and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, an office boy with the Inland Revenue aged 17, he still lived in West Green, with his widowed mother and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London, and was formerly Private 5570 15th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles).
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at 1/1 South Midland Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Sidney’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. His brother Charles died 13 June 1916 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (St Pancras).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
