KNOTT, Harry Thomas
| Service Number: | 3856 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia, March 1897 |
| Home Town: | North Fitzroy, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmiths striker |
| Died: | Blacksmiths, New South Wales, Australia, 19 April 1951, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-181. 36. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3856, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3856, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3856, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 25 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3856, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD, wounded (leg amputated) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the Saturday morning of the 21st April 1951, Lance Corporal Harry Thomas Knott, 23rd Battalion (Reg No-3856), blacksmith's striker from 43 Falconer Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria and 13 Mankilli Street, Blacksmiths, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 53. ANGLICAN 3-181. 36.
Born at Brunswick East, Victoria about June 1897 to James Edward (Edwin) and Ann (Anna) Marie (Maria) Knott nee Hardy; husband of Mrs. Margaret Grinsell Knott nee? (married?, died 1967, Concord, N.S.W.?, age 73), Harry enlisted on the 14th July 1915 at Melbourne, Victoria.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A69 Warilda on the 8th February 1916.
Admitted to hospital 22.5.1916 (influenza).
Wounded in action - 3.5.1917 (GSW left forearm, slight, Second Battle of Bullecourt), 3.10.1917 (GSW left thigh & knee, Broodseinde Ridge).
Invalided to England 5.5.1917.
Admitted to hospital 5.5.1917.
Embarked for England 20.11.1917.
Amputated left thigh 20.11.1917.
Commenced return to Australia 15.2.1918.
Harry arrived home invalided on the 16th April 1918, being discharged on the 25th May 1918.
Mr. Knott’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Harry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died, 19th April 1951.
Officially commemorated 19.9.1951 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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