Letter from Major James Leadbitter Knott to his father, James Knott, Esquire of Close House, Wylam-on-Tyne, Northumberland, marked 'only to be sent after his death'. Second in command of the 10th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, he was killed in action on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. The authorities had offered Major Knott safe employment in the control of shipping, which he felt unable to accept.
His younger brother, Captain Henry Basil Knott of the Northumberland Fusiliers, referred to as ‘Pomp’, had died from wounds received at Ypres Salient, in the previous September (1915).
The letter was reproduced in the local newspaper after the death of Sir James Knott in 1934 with the headline, One of the Most Moving Letters Ever Written.
His younger brother, Captain Henry Basil Knott of the Northumberland Fusiliers, referred to as ‘Pomp’, had died from wounds received at Ypres Salient, in the previous September (1915).
The letter was reproduced in the local newspaper after the death of Sir James Knott in 1934 with the headline, One of the Most Moving Letters Ever Written.
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