BORN HULL 1875. SON OF JOHN & MARY KNIGHT. WIFE CHARLOTTE, REGENT STREET & 35 , WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL. HE WAS A BANDSMAN AT THE HULL ICE HOUSE. LEFT HULL SEVEN YEARS AGO FOR CANANDA. A SHIPPING PORTER. 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”
HIS BROTHERS, WILLIAM KNIGHT, NORTHUMBRIAN CYCLISTS AND HERBERT KNIGHT, ARMY SERVICE CORPS ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR.
First name:
CHARLES HENRY
Military Number:
542066
Rank:
Private
Date Died
10/07/1917
Place died:
Ramsgate, Kent, UK
Age:
42
