Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

11/04/1917

Date of Discharge

05/06/1919

Place of Enlistment

Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Redfern NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Cook

Next of Kin

William Knight (brother), Balmain NSW

Service Number

579

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

3 Battalion, Australlian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force

Knight was in the Territory when he enlisted at Duntroon in April 1917. He served with the Home Service at the Duntroon Officer Training School and later in the Sydney region from July 1917 onwards before enlisting in the AN&MEF in August 1918 and being posted to Rabaul and Kokopo in New Guinea. He had served in the Cycle Corps in 1916 but was discharged medically unfit with defective vision caused two years previously at Balmain where he had worked on the docks. By August 1916 he had lost all vision in his left eye.

Description - height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 138 pounds, chest 33-35 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)