MISSING HEIR

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 6

MISSING HEIR

RESTORATION OF MEMORY INTERESTING WAR CAREER Bt Telegraph. —Press Association. —COPYRIGHT, London, March 19. Thomas Garbutt Knott, heir io the Torquay millionaire shipowner, Sir James Knott, has recovered his memory. He was found in a London hospital. He enlisted, in New Zealand, and was reported missing 'at Gallipoli. His two elder brothers were killed in France. —Sydney "Sun” Cable. [Thomas Garbutt Knott, enlisted at Milton ten davs after war broke out and sailed with tho Otago Mounted Rifles (Main Body). Ho served with his unit On Gallipoli from the landing of the Mounted Rifles in May, 1915, to the evacuation, in December, 19l ; J, with the exception of a brief spell in hospital on Anztic Beach, with influenza. Tn April, 1916 ho transferred to tho Auckland Mounted Rifles, and served with the Imperial Camel Corps during 1916. Ho was with uhe Auckland Mounteel Rilles Brigade m Palestine in 1917 and 1918.. He was in hospital on various occasions for minor disabilities, but there is no record of anv loss of memory while serving with the N.Z.E.F. Ho left Egy.pt on ipril 16, 1919, for England, in order to take his discharge there, at the request of his father, Sir James Knott, who had lost two other sons in the war Thomas Garbutt being then the only remaining son. His discharge from the N.Z.E.F. was granted on Mav 27 1919, and ho ' vas then 1,1 nor ' mal health. He also served with the South African Light Horse during the South African War.]