Knight, A F
ALBERT FRANK KNIGHT
Remembered with honour Le Touret Memorial: Panel 28 to 30.
He enlisted in Northampton; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 November 1914, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, Albert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of William and the late Elizabeth (nee ROGERS) KNIGHT.
His parents married 29 September 1877 at St Mary the Virgin, Edlesborough, Bucks. Elizabeth died 1895 in the Newport Pagnell, Bucks, district aged 41, and was buried 29 October at St Martin’s, Fenny Stratford, Bucks. William remarried 17 April 1897 at St Martin’s, Fenny Stratford, to Emma ADAMS.
Albert was born 1891 in Fenny Stratford, and baptised 29 March 1891 at St Mary’s, Bletchley, Bucks.
On the 1891 Census, Albert aged 2 months lived in Fenny Stratford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he still lived in Fenny Stratford, with his father, step-mother and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a soldier in the 1st Northants Regiment aged 20, he lived in Bugbrooke, Northants, with his father, step-mother and no siblings.
Service number
8671Rank
PrivateUnit
1st BattalionRegiment
Date of death
on or since 09/05/1915Age at death
24Place of death
Memorial(s)
Notes
Albert is possibly the A F KNIGHT commemorated at Oxhey- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)