Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Knox of Geeston, Ketton, Rutland. He was married, and before joining the army was a journeyman milkman with the Attercliffe (Sheffield) Co-operative Society. He proceeded abroad in July 1915 and served in France and Belgium. He was in action during the Battle of the Somme, when he was hit by a shell. He survived until he was carried into the Aid Post, and was remarkably cheerful on the way, observing to his platoon Sergeant as he was being carried off, “Well, Jim, lad, I have beat you to Wharncliffe after all.” It was only a day or two previously that he had been promoted to Lance Corporal. “He was a good, honest, straightforward and clean soldier.” Wrote his Sergeant to Mrs Knox, “never shirking in his duties, and often volunteering for jobs which most people would not very well relish the idea of undertaking.” Other sources show his Battalion as the 11th.