Jack Knight

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Wisbech branch

Died: 3 July 1944

Jack James Knight was born on 8 January 1913, the son of Florence Ellen and Harry Jackson Knight. He was educated at Megnus Grammar School in Newark where he won a gold medal for boxing. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as a probationer at its Nottingham Smiths Bank branch in April 1929. He was promoted to junior clerk in July 1929 and to clerk a year later in 1930. He moved to Wisbech branch in 1933 and to Ipswich in 1936. Knight was a keen sportsman throughout his life, engaging in rowing, shooting, fishing, and motoring.

From 1933 Knight was a Territorial soldier. At the outbreak of war in September 1939 he left the bank to go on full time military service, becoming a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. By 1944 he held the rank of Captain. Knight was killed in action in Normandy on 3 July 1944. He was 31 years old and left a widow, Eileen Sophia, whom he had married in 1939, and a young son.