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Corporal RICHARD THOMAS KNIGHT

Service Number: 22885
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

5th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT

II. I. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac and Mary Knight, of "Wynn Ellis," Walton-on-the-Hill, Tadworth. Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription HIS SUN WENT DOWN WHILE IT WAS YET DAY
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Buried or commemorated at

PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1348
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