Harry Walker Rigby Knight

Service number: 4802

Rank: Private

Unit: 1st Battalion then 53rd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Harry Walker Rigby Knight was born at Hardwick, Manchester, England in 1893. He was a shop assistant. He enlisted on 10 August 1915, giving as next of kin his father Daniel Rigby of Brookvale.

He served in the 1st Battalion then the 53rd Battalion. He was wounded in action in France on 27 September 1917.

He married soon after the war ended on 16 November 1918 a girl from Tottenham, London. He returned to Australia on the Somerset on 16 January 1919.