Awards & Winners

Arthur George Knight

Date of Birth 26-June-1886
Place of Birth Haywards Heath
(United Kingdom, Mid Sussex)
Nationality Canada
Profession Soldier
Arthur George Knight VC, was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Knight was one of seven Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 2 September 1918 during the Second Battle of Arras. The other six Victoria Cross recipients were Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, William Metcalf, John Francis Young, Walter Leigh Rayfield, Bellenden Hutcheson and Cyrus Wesley Peck.

Awards by Arthur George Knight

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2 September 1918 as Acting Sergeant of the10th Battalion, CEF during the First World War. Posthumously awarded.)