Walter Joseph McKnight

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270267

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Greater London

Birth city:

London

Address at enlistment:

34 Park Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

34 Park Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX December 27, 1938

Walter J. McKnight, 19 Webling Street, died at the Brantford General Hospital Sunday morning in his seventieth year after a lingering illness. Born in England, Mr. McKnight came to Canada fifty years ago. He was a former employee of the Cockshutt Plow Company and a member of the Sons of England Lodge. Left to mourn his loss are his widow, two sons, Fred and Jack, at home, and a daughter, Mrs. Clyde Brown, New York State. The funeral will be held from Reid and Brown’s Chapel Wednesday afternoon. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX December 29, 1938

The funeral of Walter J. McKnight, well known war veteran was held Wednesday afternoon from Reid and Brown’s Funeral Chapel and was largely attended. Rev. Wyburn E. Smith, Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, was in charge of the services at the chapel and at Mount Hope Cemetery, where interment took place. The Sons of England Lodge, of which the deceased was a member, conducted their last rites ceremony at the Chapel with President A.B. Lee and Chaplain G.W. Crook in charge. Bugler J. Frost sounded the Last Post at the cemetery. The pallbearers were L.A. Winter, J.G. Godfrey, J. Maynard, H.D. Farrant, F.N. Sayles and F. Benning, all members of the Sons of England. Besides his widow, Mr. McKnight is survived by two sons, Fred and Jack of this City, and one daughter, Mrs. Clyde Brown, New York. Mrs. S. Meyer, Brantford is a sister.