Name
Ernest Alexander Knight
15 September 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
233rd Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 154 to 159 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Bishop's Stortford College Memorial Hall, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford Cricket Club Memorial Plaque, Corpus Christi College War Memorial, Cambridge
Pre War
Ernest Alexander was born in Brockley, Middx on 15 September 1886 to William and Elizabeth Knight and baptised on 9 January 1890 at St Paul's, Deptford.
The family were living at 275 Brockley Row and his father was a store merchant (his brother Norman and sister Rhoda were baptised on the same day). He went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and matriculated with an MA in 1905.
On the 1911 Census, he was a boarder at 66 Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford and working as a schoolmaster at Bishop's Stortford College.
Wartime Service
He enlisted and served in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was found to be missing in action during the Battle of Passchendaele.
His body was not recovered for burial, or not identified, and his name is included amongst 35,000 others on the Tyne Cot Memorial near Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium, who have no known grave.
Additional Information
His father received £51 8s 4d in pay owing and was granted probate in London on 1 December 1917 with effects of £359 15s 3d. Home address given as 94 Wickham Road, Brockley, Kent.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
