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Military service
Service number:
3259196
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
13th Reserve Bn.
Birth:
September 2, 1896
Death:
October 24, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1028.
Additional information
Son of Hanford and Margaret McKnight, of Apohaqui, King's County, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Private Murray William McKnight
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Belle Isle Regional High School - 'Lest We Forget - Springfield, New Brunswick'<P> In the Spring of 2008, the Grade 11 Modern History students at Belle Isle Regional High School completed biographies for eighteen First World War soldiers. Their assignment was part of the ¿Lest We Forget¿ project initiated by Blake Seward, a history teacher, in Smiths Falls, Ontario.<P> The students researched individuals from Norton, New Brunswick who died while serving in the First World War. There are 44 names listed on the local cenotaph, Riverbank Memorial and it is their intention to continue this project until students have completed biographies on all the individuals listed. Their teacher, Stephen Wilson, then intends to research the soldiers from the Second World War. -
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Private Murray William McKnight
Digital gallery of
Private Murray William McKnight
Digital gallery of
Private Murray William McKnight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 461 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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