Private Frank William Knight
Number: 32563
Company: 74th (Dublin) Company (New), 8th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: 8 March 1901
Place: Curragh
Age: 20 years
Trade of calling: Tailor
Place of birth: In the Parish of Curragh, in or near the Town of Kildare, in the County of Kildare.
Family: Single. Father Henry Knight, army pensioner (cavalry), mother Caroline Knight (nee Hopkins), of Station Hospital, Curragh.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 9". Complexion fresh, eyes blue, hair dark.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 22 March 1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.
DEATH
Date: 24 August 1901
Place: Rooikopjes
Cause: Killed in action
Buried/ commemorated: Griquatown, later re-interred in West End Cemetery, Kimberley/ West End Cemetery Memorial, and St Andrew's Church Memorial, Dublin.
One of Knight's comrades wrote, in a letter published in the Dublin Evening Mail on 5 October 1901:
... when I was sworn in at the Curragh on 8th March, a young fellow named Frank Knight held the book with me as we took the oath.-- Poor fellow, he got a bullet through the heart, "one taken and the other left."
This page last updated 30 August 2024.