OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. E. F. KNIGHT. NOTED WAR CORRESPONDENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 4. Tlie death is announced of Mr. Edward Frederick Knight, the Morning Post war correspondent, who served with the French Army as a youth of 18 in the war of 1870. Ho lost his right arm when acting as correspondent in the South African war and learned to write with his left hand. He accompanied the present King and Queen on their world tour in 1901-02. / The late Mr. Knight, barrister, journalist and author, was 73 years of age. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained the B.A. degree. He had travelled extensively in many countries. 110 acted as Times war correspondent in various campaigns in Africa, including the Sudan campaigns of 1896 and 1897-98, and also in Greece in 1897, 'Cuba in 1898 and Spain in 1899. He was correspondent to the Morning Post in the South African war in 18991900 and lost his right arm as the result of a severe wound "at Belmont. He accompanied the present King and Queen —then the Duke and Duchess of York—in the Ophir tour round the world in 1901-02. He was again in South Africa in 1902-03 and was" with Kuroki's army in the war between Russia and Jsipan in 1904, going to Turkey in 1908. Mr. Knight was the author of many publications. His favourite recreation was yachting, and at various times he undertook voyages in cbmmand of small sailing yachts to South America, West Indies, the Baltic and other places.