Name
Charles Gambell Knight
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
Z/1714
Rifle Brigade
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Battersea, Surrey in 1886. Husband of Annie (nee Harris), of 5, Heath Cottages, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx. who he married at Christ Church on 25 December 1909. In 1911 he was an electrician and they were living at 1 Osborne Cottages, Little Heath. They had a daughter, Thirza May Helen Knight, was born 27 April 1912.
Wartime Service
Attested 31 Aug 1914 at Westminster and posted to 9th Battalion. Trained at Aldershot then posted to 2nd Battalion, landing in France, 16 June 1915. Attached to 1/1 Home Counties Field Company Royal Engineers 15 Jan 1916 and rejoined 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade 11 Mar 1916. Missing, presumed killed in action 1 July 1916. Killed during the first day of the Battle of the Somme where the battalion was in reserve in the assault on German trenches near Ovillers-la-Boisselle.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
