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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Swindon
  
• Land Wiltshire, England
• Last residence No 79 Ashford Road, Swindon Wiltshire
• Family Son of Edward Thomas and Caroline Elizabeth Knapp; two sisters, Gertrude and Florence
• Profession Clerk with Great Western Railway
• Extra info Husband of Lilian Knapp, of 79, Ashford Rd., Swindon; three children, Lilian, John Edward and Horace Leslie;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment November 1915, Swindon
• Service number 218907
• Rank 2nd Corporal
• Regiment and unit 20th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Coy. Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career To France 17 February 1917; promoted 2nd Corporal, August 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Died at the age of 39
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - FF - 8A

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