Nieuwpoort (Nieuport) - Flanders/Belgium

[Malte Znaniecki]

Thank you very much Kristof !

Malte

[alain dubois]

Hi,

May I ask a question : why "elephant" shelters ( why elephant ??)

Regards

Alain

[dugout]

Hi,

May I ask a question : why "elephant" shelters ( why elephant ??)

Regards

Alain

Alain,

I did not find a clear answer on that. I heard it would have to do with the shape of the corogated iron. It has the shape of an elephant nose.

I have drawings of those constructions. I will use them in tne book about nieuwpoort I work on.

regards,

Kristof

OK here it is. Section of a WW1 elephant shelter.

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[Malte Znaniecki]

Nieuwpoort today

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Nieuwpoort today

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Nieuwpoort today

[Wallis]

I am an assistant archivist for Felsted School and we are currently updating our records for those who fell and fought the great wars. I am seeking permission to use the maps and photos linked to this discussion for our records. It is a non-commercial venture (credited accordingly)

 

I await your reply

 

JULES

 

In regards with Lt Stanley Charles Knight:

b. 1892-09-16 d. 1915-07-12 Felsted School: Elwyns House - Sept 1906- July 09

 

Stanley Knight son of Charles Stafford and Lyllie Knight (née Rowe, Swedish), of 68/70 Fenchurch St., London; born in Nazeing, Essex and and grandson of Sir Henry Knight, Alderman of the City of London. Educated at Rose Hill School, Banstead. He left Felsted at 16, too young to get into the school teams, though he had shown the same promise of athletic powers that marked his younger brother Norman (e 1911-15) later. He had an older brother too, Raymond Knight (e 1904-08), who served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers, was awarded the MC and a Mention in despatches, and later sent two sons to Felsted. Stanley left to work as an insurance clerk (his father was a Lloyd's Underwriter and Insurance Broker) and enlisted in the R.M.A. as a Gunner 2^nd Class on 25^th April 1913, made 2^nd Lieutenant on 29^th October 1914 as the war began.

He was assigned to the Fledgling Anti-Aircraft Brigade of the R.M.A. in response to the enemy aircraft assaulting the trenches consisting of only 485 men, with 37 Officers. It was formed in Eastney in 1914 and landed at Dunkirk in April 1915, on 30th April ‘B’ Battery claimed its first German Aircraft brought down, 17 of the 37 Officers were killed in action and 8 died of wounds, 28 of the Officers were assigned to the battalions so only a handful of the Battalion Leaders lived through the war. ‘B’ Battery carried out very effective work at Nieuport in protecting the French artillery and repeatedly gained recognition of the French Commanders. Determined efforts were made by the German gunners to knock the battery out and the guns were hit and pout out of action three times. On 16th July, Lieutenant Stanley Charles Knight was mortally wounded in a gallant action against hostile aeroplanes; whilst the section was being shelled, he remained in an exposed position observing the fire of his section, and in spite of heavy shelling kept his guns in action until he was hit.

On the 4th, 6th and 10th July, the guns at Nieuport engaged enemy planes, and on each occasion after firing they were shelled and had to shift position. This was the enemy’s recognition of the value of the service rendered by them to the French Artillery; the French recognised it in more acceptable form. The shelling on the Roth, had serious results, who continued to observe for his section until he was hit, being mortally wounded, and one gun being put out of action with its sight’s damaged and range finder destroyed. The other gun continued in action until the enemy’s observing aeroplane was driven down, when it moved its position. The Germans continued to land 5-9 shells on the old position.

It was on the morning of Speech Day 1915 that a telegram arrived announcing that he had died of wounds "received in action while directing the fire of his section under heavy shell fire on July 12th".

A note:¹²⁶ ‘.... at Nieuport ..... On July 16th (sic), Lieut. S. C. Knight was mortally wounded in a gallant action against hostile aeroplanes; whilst the section was being shelled, Lt. Knight remained in an exposed position observing the fire of his section, and in spite of heavy shelling kept his guns in action until he was hit.’

He is buried in Adinkerke Churchyard Extension, Grave 798 Bis, De Panne. He is also remembered in All Saints Church, Banstead.

[Wallis]

Lt SC Knight at Felsted School in 1909 for your reocrds

 

Jules

[Cnock]

Grave Lt. SC Knight

[keithmroberts]

Thank you for adding the material above.

 

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The GWF (Great War Forum Ltd), can’t actually give anyone permission to do more than is laid down in the guidance from the Intellectual Property Office as we don't own quoted or posted documents..

You can seek to contact individual members of the forum by sending them a personal message, but it is fair to say that Malte Znaniecki has not visited the forum this year and did indicate last year that he was terminally ill. 

I’m sorry that we can’t be more definite but as owners of a non commercial project you must make your own judgement over what it is reasonable to use. Crediting the source and confirming where appropriate that you have sought to trace copyright owners is always advisable.

 

Best wishes with your project

 

 

Keith Roberts

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[Wallis]

On 7/29/2016 at 16:16, keithmroberts said:

Thank you for adding the material above.

 

Copyright is always a concern, thank you for checking.  Copyright in personally owned documents is vested not in the forum, but generally  in the owner and publisher of the documents.  

 

 

 Here is the section of our rules that relates:

 

 

Copyright

 

 

Members posting images or content from sources other than those of which they are the copyright owners are required to make reasonable efforts to respect copyright. Attention is drawn to this guidance from the UK Intellectual Property Office, http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exception.htm

 

 

Items that are considered likely to breach the law will be removed whenever ownership is asserted by another party, or where a breach of copyright is alleged. Members should acknowledge sources when quoting or using material from external sources.

 

 

The owners of this Forum retain copyright in the overall compilation of the Forum and have an implicit licence to use your message as part of the Forum by virtue of that implicit licence. Specifically, the design of this Forum including but not limited to domains, URL's, titles, logos and other images, category descriptions, html skins and other features is the property of the owners of the Great War Forum.

 

 

 

 

 

The GWF (Great War Forum Ltd), can’t actually give anyone permission to do more than is laid down in the guidance from the Intellectual Property Office as we don't own quoted or posted documents..

 

 

You can seek to contact individual members of the forum by sending them a personal message, but it is fair to say that Malte Znaniecki has not visited the forum this year and did indicate last year that he was terminally ill. 

 

 

I’m sorry that we can’t be more definite but as owners of a non commercial project you must make your own judgement over what it is reasonable to use. Crediting the source and confirming where appropriate that you have sought to trace copyright owners is always advisable.

 

Best wishes with your project

 

 

Keith Roberts

GWF Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your comments, most appreciated.

 

JULES