John George Knott

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

55648

Unit at enlistment:

19th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Essex

Birth city:

Cambridge Town

Address at enlistment:

188 Grey Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Cambridge Road, Shoeburyness, Essex, England

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX November 10, 1915

Brantford Soldier On Casualty List – Pte. John G. Knott Wounded

The official casualty lists published this morning at Ottawa announce that Private John George Knott, a member of Major “Bert” Newman’s command in the 19th Battalion, has been wounded. Pte. Knott enlisted with the 38th Dufferin Rifles quota in October, 1914 and left Brantford on October 29 in the company of Duffs for Toronto, where training was continued at the Exhibition Camp during the winter months.

Private Knott’s next of kin are given as residing in England, where the home of his parents is located. He boarded at 188 Grey Street at the time of his enlistment. Pte. Knott is unmarried and by trade was a laborer at the time of his departure from this city.

BX February 20, 1918

More Veterans Returned Home – Pte. Ernest Walsh Was Victim of a German Bayonet Thrust

Among the other Brantford soldiers returning home from the scene of conflict this week are J.G. Knott, Lance Corp. J.A. Little, C. Roberts and E. Williamson. Pte Ernest Walsh, West Mill Street, is also an arrival. He was a victim of a German bayonet thrust. His battalion (75th) pulled off a raid on the German trenches at Lens last June and when the operation was over he was one of the stretcher-bearers who gathered in the Canadian wounded from the German lines to prevent them from being taken prisoners. The Huns came back and in the scuffle, Pte. Walsh received a bayonet thrust in the hip, which crippled him. He managed to get across No Man’s Land, however. Pte. Walsh was attested with the famous 84th Battalion in 1915, and came unscathed through the fighting at the Somme, Regina Trench and Vimy Ridge.

Pte. Fred Clawsey who left here with the 36th Battalion in the late Capt. Findlay Fraser’s Company is also home and apparently as well as ever, although he saw 27 months service in France with the 1st Battalion. Pte. Clawsey saw nearly all the important affairs of the British offensive and was several times blown up. But escaped serious injury.

Toronto Star – October 17, 1949

KNOTT, Pte. John George, Reg. No. 55648, 19th Battalion, C.E.F. – At Sunnybrook hospital, on Sunday evening, Oct. 16, 1949. John George Knott of 81 Westminster Ave., Toronto, beloved husband of the late Margaret Wilson, dear father of John G. Knott. Resting at Turner and Porter funeral home, 436 Roncesvalles) at Howard park Ave). Service in the chapel, 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Interment Park Lawn Cemetery. (Semi-military honors).