Notes
He is listed on the memorial as having been a scholar at the school. The school website (see References) states: ‘Lance Corporal Leonard Knott was the son of William and Elizabeth Knott of 250, Audenshaw Rd., Audenshaw. Both his parents were certified schoolteachers and he had two bothers Frederick and Harold and two sisters Muriel and Winifred. He was educated at Ashton Secondary School and was preparing for a career as a miner’s engineer. In September 1914 he joined the Royal Fusiliers. It was on operations in the Somme where he was performing his duties as a stretcher bearer that he was struck by a shell and killed instantaneously on the 28th of November 1917 aged 22 years old.' He is also listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Frederick Vernon, also listed on this memorial, was hid elder brother.