Military service
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Son of Alfred and Katherine Knight. Husband of Margaret Allan Knight of Durham, Ontario
Digital gallery of Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Original photo, showing the burial of Major Knight of the Eatons Machine Gun Battery, at the Somme in Sept, 1916. (Photo from donors collection).
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Detail from photo showing the burial of Major Knight.
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Original newspaper photo showing the burial of Major Knight with the GV Memorial Cross awarded to his mother after his death.
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Reverse view of Memorial Cross
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Excerpt from the War Diary detailing the death of Major Knight on September 26, 1916.
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Edward Lewin Knight
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Original photo, showing the burial of Major Knight of the Eatons Machine Gun Battery, at the Somme in Sept, 1916. (Photo from donors collection).
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Detail from photo showing the burial of Major Knight.
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Original newspaper photo showing the burial of Major Knight with the GV Memorial Cross awarded to his mother after his death.
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Reverse view of Memorial Cross
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Excerpt from the War Diary detailing the death of Major Knight on September 26, 1916.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Albert is in the Department of the Somme. The BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-east of town on the right-hand side of the main road, D929, to Bapaume.
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