MR. KNOTT'S WAR SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 9

MR. KNOTT'S WAR SERVICE.

A MAIN BODY VOLUNTEER.

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WELLINGTON. Thursday.

Mr. Thomas Garbutt Knott enlisted at Milton 10 days after war broke out in 1914, and sailed with the Otago Mounted Rifles (main body). He served with his unit on Gallipoli from the landing of the Mounted Rifles in May, 1915, to the evacuation in December of that year, with the exception of a brief period spent in hospital on Anzao Beach owing to an attack of influenza.

In April, 1916, Mr. Knott transferred to the Auckland Mounted Rifles and served with the Imperial Camel Corps during 1916. He was with the Auckland Mounted Rifles brigade in Palestine in 1917 and 1918. He was in hospital on various occasions owing to minor disabilities, but there is no record of any loss of memory while serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. ,

Mr. Knott left Egypt on April 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 ,New Zealand force was granted on May 27, 1919, and he was then (in normal health. He also served with the Sctath African Light Horse during the South African war.