EASTWOOD AND KIMBERLEY ADVERTISER
4th May 1917
HOPE ABANDONED OVER CODNOR SHERWOOD

We regret to have to announce the death of another soldier who has paid the supreme 
sacrifice. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Kniveton, of Nottingham Rd, Codnor, and was 
posted as missing on Sept 3rd 1916. Nothing has been heard of him since, until Tuesday 
morning, when the sad news of his death was officially reported.

Along with the papers from the war office was a card bearing the King and Queens’s 
sympathy in the family's sorrow.
Pte, Kniveton enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters soon after the outbreak of war. 
He went through the Dardanelles, at the close of which he journeyed to Greece and 
then to Egypt, going to France in June last. He was 22 years of age, and in civil life was 
employed at Waingroves Colliery. While in training at Landgate he took a leading part in 
the Wesleyan Chapel Choir there. He was also a member of the United Methodist Free 
Church Choir at Codnor. He was highly respected in and round about the village, and 
much sympathy is extended to the parents and family in their sad bereavement.

Another son, Gunner E.E. Kniveton (R.F.A.) is in training at Ripon.