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Military service
Service number:
654629
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
July 27, 1896
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of William R. and C. Jennie Knight, of 158, North Brock St., Sarnia, Ontario.
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Enlisted with the 161st Battalion at Goderich, in September 1914. Transferred to the 58th Battalion, leaving Canada in October 1916. Killed in action at Passchendaele on October 26, 1917. -
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Medal
Allied Mothers Badge 001 -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium<P> Photo courtesy of J. Elliott/J. Rutledge, The Men of Huron WW1 Project -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private Charles Edwin Knight
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Edwin Knight
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Edwin Knight
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Edwin Knight
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Edwin Knight
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 269 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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