BORN HULL 1875. SON OF JOHN & MARY KNIGHT.
HUSBAND OF CHARLOTTE KNIGHT, OF REGENT STREET, HULL & 35 , WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL.
HE WAS A BANDSMAN AT THE HULL ICE HOUSE, WALKER STREET, HULL. LEFT HULL SEVEN YEARS AGO FOR CANADA. A SHIPPING PORTER.
HE ENLISTED IN CANADA. SERVED IN THE MEDICAL CORPS, WITH THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED, ON 10/07/1917, AGED 42.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/07/1917. *
HE IS BURIED AT RAMSGATE CEMETERY, KENT. HIS GRAVE READS, “SUDDEN DEATH SUDDEN GLORY EVER IN THOUGHT”
(Note: Cenotaph – Private Charles Henry Knight is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, Ontario, Canada)
HIS BROTHERS, WILLIAM KNIGHT, NORTHUMBRIAN CYCLISTS AND HERBERT KNIGHT, ARMY SERVICE CORPS ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR.
