4zKapper Reginald Francis Knapper - Commemorated in TRENTHAM (ST. MARY AND ALL SAINTS) CHURCH CEMETERY

Reginald Francis Knapper - Commemorated in TRENTHAM

 

Rank:Lance Serjeant

Service No:27541

Date of Death:08/09/1918 - Age 27

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st Bn.

 

Enlisted - 04/09/1914 - N/Staffs (12932)

Posted - 09/09/1914 - 7th Bn - Tidworth

Posted - 10/09/1914 - 8th Bn - Tidworth

Appointed - 01/05/1915 - L/Cpl

Dis-embarked - 18/07/1915 - France

Wounded - 14/01/1916 - GWS Right Knee

Hosp - 18/01/1916 - England

Posted - 25/01/1916 - 3rd Bn

Posted - 13/06/1916 - 10th Bn

Posted - 28/08/1916 - 3rd Bn

Posted - 05/09/1916 - 1st Bn

Dis-embarked - 07/09/1916 - France

Transf - 21/09/1916 - LNL 7th Bn (27541)

Promoted - 05/01/1917 - Cpl

Posted - 10/02/1918 - 1st Bn

Appointed - 20/08/1918 - L/Sgt

 

DURY CRUCIFIX CEMETERY

Grave Reference: III. D. 1.

 

Awarded 14-15 Star, BWM & VM

 

Previous Occupation Labourer at Colliery

Railway Signal Fitter (1911) N/Staffs Railway

Name appears on N/Staffs Railway Memorial at Stoke Station

 

Additional Information

Son of Henry William & Emma Knapper

of 2 Church Lane, Hanford,

Done