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Lance Corporal JOHN LOVATT KNIGHT

Service Number: 240512
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 November 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE

III. A. 27.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Lovatt Knight and Alice Knight, of 48, Hanbury St., Miles Platting, Manchester. Native of Openshaw, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE
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Buried or commemorated at

PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2001
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