Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William Henry and Emily Elizabeth Knight. The 1911 census records for Gumley, Market Harborough, Leics. Willimam Henry Knight, head of the family, married 22 years and an Unemployed Baker, born 1867 in Farndon, Northants., and his wife Emily Elizabeth, a Dressmaker, born 1869 in Lubenham, Leics., also Susan A., daughter and single, a College Student, born 1892, Jane Elizabeth, daughter and single, a Dressmaker's Assistant, born 1896 and Joseph B., son and single, a Schoolboy, born 1898, all three children were born in Lubenham, Leics.