WWI · Battle Death Record
Edmund Knight
Sergeant, U.S. Army · Pennsylvania
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Edmund Knight
- Entered the Service From
- Pennsylvania
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- K Company, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- July 29, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Seringes-et-Nesles, France
- Grave
- Plot A, Row 15, Grave 23
Their story
Sergeant Edmund H. Knight served with K Company, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, and was killed in action crossing the River Ourcq during the Aisne-Marne offensive on 29 July 1918. He and his brother Frederic, who fell a day later, were born in Yorkshire, England, and enlisted after their family settled in Philadelphia; both are buried at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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