Regimental number 2589
Place of birth Snake Valley, Victoria
School State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Miner
Address c/o Goldminers' Arms Hotel, Forrest Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 35
Next of kin Brother, William Mark Knight, corner of Robert and Wilson streets, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment date 30 August 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 43rd Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/60/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 43rd Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Ypres, Belgium
Age at death from cemetery records 35
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 137
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Commemorated in Linton Cemetery, Victoria. Parents: William (d. 24 July 1885, aged 54; bur. Linton) and Agnes (d. 24 March 1904, aged 68; bur. Linton) KNIGHT. Native of Snake Valley, Victoria
Other details War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Source – AIF Project.
Place of birth Snake Valley, Victoria
School State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Miner
Address c/o Goldminers' Arms Hotel, Forrest Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 35
Next of kin Brother, William Mark Knight, corner of Robert and Wilson streets, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment date 30 August 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 43rd Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/60/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 43rd Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Ypres, Belgium
Age at death from cemetery records 35
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 137
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Commemorated in Linton Cemetery, Victoria. Parents: William (d. 24 July 1885, aged 54; bur. Linton) and Agnes (d. 24 March 1904, aged 68; bur. Linton) KNIGHT. Native of Snake Valley, Victoria
Other details War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Source – AIF Project.
Regimental number 2589
Place of birth Snake Valley, Victoria
School State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Miner
Address c/o Goldminers' Arms Hotel, Forrest Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 35
Next of kin Brother, William Mark Knight, corner of Robert and Wilson streets, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment date 30 August 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 43rd Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/60/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 43rd Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Ypres, Belgium
Age at death from cemetery records 35
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 137
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Commemorated in Linton Cemetery, Victoria. Parents: William (d. 24 July 1885, aged 54; bur. Linton) and Agnes (d. 24 March 1904, aged 68; bur. Linton) KNIGHT. Native of Snake Valley, Victoria
Other details War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Source – AIF Project.
Place of birth Snake Valley, Victoria
School State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Miner
Address c/o Goldminers' Arms Hotel, Forrest Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 35
Next of kin Brother, William Mark Knight, corner of Robert and Wilson streets, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment date 30 August 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 43rd Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/60/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 43rd Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Ypres, Belgium
Age at death from cemetery records 35
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 137
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Commemorated in Linton Cemetery, Victoria. Parents: William (d. 24 July 1885, aged 54; bur. Linton) and Agnes (d. 24 March 1904, aged 68; bur. Linton) KNIGHT. Native of Snake Valley, Victoria
Other details War service: Western Front
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Source – AIF Project.
Gravesite Details
Note from GN: 2589. 43rd Bn. Australian Infantry
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