GEORGE EDWARD KNIGHT MM was serving as a Gunner with "D" Battery, 286th Brigade, The Royal Field Artillery when he died on 9 April 1918 from wounds received. He was aged 23 and his final resting place is unknown, he is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Hainaut, Belgium.

He was born in Banbury in 1894 to Alice Knight, who in 19o1 married James Hobday, and had worked as a greaser on the Great Western Railway before enlisting. 

Steve Kingsford