Hugh Knights

A Private with the 1st Battalion, Hugh died on 23rd of October 1944 aged 24. 

Hugh was born at Chillesford, Suffolk, on 20 September 1920, a son of Harry and Elizabeth Knights. In 1921 his family lived at The Street, Chillisford. By 1939 their address was ‘Rear of the Fire Station’, Saint Peter’s Street, Lowestoft, and Hugh was an assistant at a hardware store.

Hugh joined the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion in north-west Europe. His battalion landed at Sword Beach on D-Day. On 17 October the battalion were involved in liberating the town of Venray, west of Eindhoven, and were based there for the next few days. On 23 October the 1st Battalion were involved in patrol work in and around Leunen, to the south of Venray, and Hugh was killed in action.