Philip Hector KNIGHT

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Service Number:	56
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Walgrave, Northants, England., 1896
Home Town:	Maffra, Wellington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 10 November 1917
Cemetery:	Passchendaele, New British Cemetery Grave XIV. C. 3. INSCRIPTION GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE, Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Maffra Shire Honour Roll

10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 56, 24th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 56, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
10 Nov 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 56, 24th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 56 awm_unit: 24 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-11-10

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He was 21 and the son of Henry Ernest and Martha Hannah Knight of Manor Farm, Twywell, Thrapston, Northants, England.

He is one of 10 Australian casualties of the Great War honoured on the Kettering War Memorial in Northamptonshire, England.

His birth was actually recorded as Hector Philip and for that reason is how his name is inscribed on the Kettering War Memorial.

Births Jun 1896 Knight Philip Hector Brixworth 3b 132

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