Lieutenant Maynard Mansfield KNIGHT
1st Battalion Madras Pioneers, Labour Corps, Indian Army

Date of birth: 11th June 1877
Date of death: 28th January 1919

Died aged 41
Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery Plot XX Row F Grave 12
Maynard Mansfield Knight was born at Bobbing in Kent on the 11th of June 1877 the younger son of Richard Lake Knight, an agricultural engineer, and Lydia (nee Dobree) Knight of Bobbing Place, Sittingbourne in Kent. He was christened at Bobbing on the 4th of August 1877.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in School House from April 1892 to July 1895. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1894 and 1895, in which he headed both the batting and bowling averages in the former year. He was appointed as a Prefect in 1894.

He became a tea planter in Ceylon and later in Southern India, living at Vandiperyar, Peermade, South India.

He was a Signalling Instructor to the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles in 1913. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Madras Pioneers on the 21st of February 1917 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 21st of February 1918.

He died of pneumonia at Mirgana in Mesopotamia.

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