Charles Crawfurd MACKNIGHT

MACKNIGHT, Charles Crawfurd

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 22 August 1914
Last Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit: Australian Army Medical Corps WW1
Born: 'Dunmore', Macarthur, Victoria, Australia, 15 November 1861
Home Town: Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria
Schooling: Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh
Occupation: Medical Practitioner
Died: Natural causes, Kew, Victoria, Australia, 8 November 1953, aged 91 years
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Church of England, Compartment L, Section 18, Grave 39
Memorials: Warrnambool Club Pictorial Honour Roll
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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

MacKnight's second name is in fact spelt Crawfurd not Crawford. The use of Crawford is an ongoing curruption through out his service record and other documents. On page 53 of his service record in his 'Application for a Commission' which has been completed by MacKnight himself and clearly details his second name as 'Crawfurd'. His younger brother Dr William Crawfurd MacKnight (1865-1945) also has the same second name. The name is drawn from their paternal grandmother's family - Courtesy of Michael Silver 

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