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Pte. Harry John Knight
British Army 1st Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regt.
from:Newport, Monmouthshire
My Grandfather Harry Knight served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment in the 1st Battalion. I know no details of his Service other than that he was a Prisoner of War, he escaped at least twice, was re captured and tortured. He was missing in action but later my grandmother was at the cinema one day & on the Newsreel a film was being shown of British POW's in Germany. She thought she saw him on the film. She told family members who then went themselves to see the film, they agreed it was him so they then went to see the cinema manager who showed then the film privately, when the film reached the point where they thought they saw my Grandfather the film was stopped. It was agreed by all that indeed it was him. Subsequently he was traced via the Red Cross.
Harry returned home but sadly he was a very sick man, by 1921 he was admitted to St. Cadocs Psychiatric Hospital in Caerleon Monmouthshire where he died in 1960. Originally from Croydon, Surrey Harry had moved to Newport Monmouthshire around 1905/6. He met & married my Grandmother there. He had been in the West Surrey Regiment for a while around 1902/3. Although on his birth cert. His name is Harry John Knight, officialdom has recorded him as Henry which is confusing.
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