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James Knight

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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Perth
  • Service no: 2535
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion
  • Place of Death: France
  • Age at Death: 20
  • Date of Death: 19.06.1915
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Bethune Town Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: IV.C.97.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Broughty Ferry/Nairn?
  • Address:
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Jane Knight, 10 Fullarton St, Lochee, Dundee

  • Father:

    Robert Knight, 20 Hill St, Anderston, Glasgow

  • Siblings:

    Fred, George and W.D. Knight

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about James Knight

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour. C.W.G.C. list this mans birthplace as Broughty Ferry, S.D.G.W. list Nairn as his place of birth.

James Knight   25325   Black Watch

Private James Knight, 1st Black Watch, who died of wounds received in action somewhere in France, was home wounded in the thigh last October, and returned to the trench in January, gallantly giving up his life for his country.  Private James Knight was a member of a family every member of which is doing a “little bit” for Britain.  Private Fred Knight, a brother, is in hospital at Greenwich, recovering from a gunshot wound in the left thigh.  Another brother, Corporal W. D. Knight, came from India with the 2d Black Watch after four years in that country, and went to the front, but at the end of November he was invalided home with severe frostbite.  Another brother, George Knight, and the father of the family are in Glasgow on Government work, while the mother is similarly employed in Dundee.

Dundee People’s Journal 17th July 1915

Information supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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