Oliver Herbert Knight

Service number: 1059

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: 18th Battalion and 63rd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Oliver Knight was born at Wollongong in 1891. He was a boilermaker at Waugh and Josephson prior to enlisting. He enlisted on 2 May 1915, giving his mother, at Oaks Avenue, Dee Why, as next-of-kin.

He embarked on the Ceramic on 25 June 1915. He served with the 18th Battalion as a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli.

He was in trouble in May 1916 for accidentally wounding himself. He was promoted to Corporal on 11 August 1917 and Sergeant on 11 September 1917. He was wounded in action in the face on 28 July 1918.

He returned to Australia on 8 April 1919.