KNOP, Ernest Clarence
| Service Number: | T11352 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Lower Longley, Tasmania, Australia, 8 July 1901 |
| Home Town: | Huonville, Huon Valley, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 April 1949, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, T11352 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ernest was the third of eight children of George Knop (born 1873 at Lower Longley in Tasmania) and Lydia Huxley (born 1872 at Longley in Tasmania). George - Fruit Grower in Lower Longley - married Lydia in 1896 in Hobart, Tasmania. They raised their family at Lower Longley, where George was a Fruit Grower.
Ernest was a Labourer at Lower Longley in 1928 when he married Amy Lillian May Roach (born 1911 in Hobart, Tasmania). Ernest and Amy Divorced in 1936, and Ernest was working as a Labourer at Huonville in Tasmania in November 1940 when he enlisted in the Army - his name was spelled 'Earnest' on his enlistment papers. Ernest was a Private (Service No:T11352) attached to 24 Australian Employment Coy when he was Discharged in December 1943.
In 1944 Ernest was in Melbourne, Victoria when he married Myrtle Silva/Silver (born 1906 in Bealiba, Victoria). Ernest and Myrtle lived in Melbourne, where Ernest was working as a Cleaner when he died in 1949. Myrtle remarried in 1950, and died in 1958.