WILLIAM+J.+KNIVETON

 Kniveton, John William, Private, 14409, 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Disembarked for service 14th July 1915 Born Bonsall, Derbyshire Enlisted Derby Resided Bonsall Died of wounds 14th October 1917 aged 22 Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial

John William is commemorated on the Midland Railway Memorial as W. Kniveton, he was a Labourer in the Way and Works Department at Matlock Bath Station

1911 Census A mineral colour labourer Son of John, a railway platelayer's labourer, and Ann Elizabeth Kniveton, of Clataway, The Green, Bonsall, Derbyshire 

(Article and photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 30th October 1917)


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