Education
Born at Ladywood in Birmingham on 24 August 1888, he attended Saint Philip"s School (more correctly Street Philip"s Grammar School}, Edgbaston.
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Career
He joined the Post Office and worked as a Clerical Assistant in the North Midland Engineering District. Knight was 29 years old, and a sergeant in the 2/8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. He performed several other acts of conspicuous bravery single-handed, all under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire and without regard to personal safety. All the platoon officers of the company had become casualties before the first objective was reached, and this NCO took command not only of all the men of his own platoon but of the platoons without officers and his energy in consolidating and reorganising was untiring.
After the war he was transferred to the Ministry of Labour and was Manager of the Employment Exchange at When he retired in 1951 he was Senior Wages Inspector in the Midlands section of the Ministry of Labour.
In 2005, Birmingham City Council named a street in his honour on the Park Central development in Ladywood, where Alfred Knight grew up. Alfred Knight died at home at the age of 72.
He is buried in Oscott Catholic Cemetery, New Oscott, Birmingham.
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Membership
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1951. Alfred Knight was a member of the Catholic organisation The Catenian Association holding a number of senior offices.
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Religion
Catholic