Edward Knight was born on March 14, 1931, the son of John Knight and Violet Winnifred Wynne, of 183 Water Street, Sarnia. Edward’s siblings (and ages at the time of his death) were brothers Donald L. (19); Clifford Jack (17); and Gerald (8); and sisters Mary (25); Charlotte (15); and Theresa (14). Raised in Sarnia, Edward attended Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, and was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish, Sarnia.
Edward Knight enlisted in the Canadian army on October 24, 1951 in London, Ontario. He would arrive in the Korean theatre five months later and was due to return on rotation leave at Easter of 1953. Private Knight was a member of the Army, the Royal Canadian Regiment, 1st Battalion. On October 23,1952, one year after he enlisted, Private Edward J. Knight would lose his life during fighting in Korea. Several days later, mother Violet Knight in Sarnia would receive word that her son, Private Edward Knight, was killed in action in Korea on Thursday October 23.
Twenty-one year old Edward Joseph Michael Knight is buried in the United Nations Cemetery in Busan, South Korea, Plot 21, Row 8, Grave 1346. He also has a memorial plaque on the Korea Veteran’s National Wall of Remembrance in Meadowvale Cemetery, in Brampton, Ontario. This memorial has plaques for each of the 516 Canadian service men who died while serving with the Canadian Forces in the United Nations operations in Korea.
SOURCES: B, D, E, H, L, N, 2D