BORN HULL 1887. SON OF THE LATE SARAH E KNIGHT. A GRAIN PORTER. LIVED IN GUILDFORDM SURREY (1901). LIVING AT 2 MARFLEET AVENUE, CRAVEN STREET, HULL (1911). HUSBAND OF ALICE EMMA KNIGHT OF 3, MARKET AVENUE, PRINCES WALK, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HE ENLISTED AT HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1649, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 9TH ARMY CYCLIST CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/08/1917, AGED 29.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL.
Kim Semmence writes on 07/11/2015: Although the collection Soldiers Died in WW1 give his name as John Welland, the Register of Effects has him as John William Knight, with a wife Alice E Knight. I have a 1907 marriage for John Wm Knight and Alice Emma Hardy (1888–1959) and in 1907 they were with the in-laws. Children: George William (1908), Alice E (1913) and Violet L (1916).
His parents are most likely Albert James Knight and Sarah Elizabeth Bilton, who were married at St Charles. For some reason J W wasn’t with them in 1891 (when they were in Scawby) and by 1901 Albert was with his brother in Attercliffe.
