Wilbert George Knight

Service number: 1060

Rank: Private

Unit: 18th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Wilberton, (known as Wilbert), Knight was born at Marybough, Victoria in 1894. He was a cycle and motor mechanic; his father was a Salvation Army officer. He enlisted on 3 May 1915 giving as next of kin his mother living at Pittwater Road, Dee Why.

He embarked on 25 June 1915. He was hospitalised from Gallipoli with dysentery on 29 September 1915. He then served in France with the 18th Battalion, with whom he was also a bandsman. He was wounded in the hand on 26 July 1916. After the war he married Elsie Alsop at Bristol on 26 February 1919. He returned to Australia on 10 July 1919 on the Prinz Ludwig.