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Pte. John Knox

British Army 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

from:Jarrow

(d.14th Jul 1916)

John Knox was serving with the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, when he died on 14th July 1916, he was 22 years old. Born in Hebburn Colliery in 1894, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Knox (nee Clayton) of 14 Station Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census John Knox age 13 Newsboy at School is listsed as living with his widowed mother Elizabeth Knox and family at 94 Western Road, Jarrow. He lived in Newcastle and enlisted in Jarrow.

John is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.



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