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Captain MAURICE EDWARD KNIGHT

Service Number: 200546
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

2. G. 2.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 15th Punjab Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Douglas and Ellen Knight, of Dannevirke, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. M.A.
  • Personal Inscription HE DID NOT DIE IN VAIN; HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT PEACE MIGHT COME AGAIN TO US, SOME DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 707
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