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by Christopher Burgess

Boyd, Lieutenant J.

  Brasserie

  Break

  Bremridge, Lieutenant G.

  “Brig Boy’s”

  Broadway

  Brown, 2nd Lieutenant D.G.

  Bruay

  Cairn’s

  Caix

  Caley

  Callards

  Cameron, 2nd Lieutenant J.D.

  Cassel

  Charing Cross

  “Charlie Chaplin”

  “Cheep”

  “Chin Ling Soo”

  “Chu Chin Chow”

  Ciro’s

  Clairmarais (‘Clair Marais’)

  Claor

  Cocks, Captain G.M., see Cox

  Coliseum

  Comines (‘Commines’)

  Conteville

  Corner House

  Corry, Lieutenant F.M.

  Cottage Tea Rooms

  Cowan, 2nd Lieutenant R.H.

  Cox, Captain G.M.

  Criterion

  Cunningham, Major J.A.

  Cutbill, 2nd Lieutenant E.H.

  “Daddy Longlegs”

  “Dear Brutus”

  Dikkebus (‘Dickebush’)

  Diksmuide (‘Dixmunde’)

  Droogland (‘Dooglandt’, ‘Droglandt’)

  Drury Lane

  Duffus, Major C.

  Dyer, 2nd Lieutenant H.A.

  Eaton, Lieutenant E.C.

  Elysee Palace

  “Fair and Warmer”

  Frascatis

  “General Post”

  Gilmour, Captain J. ‘Jack’

  “Going Up”

  “Goodbye-e-e”

  Gordon, Lieutenant E.G.S.

  Gorringe, Lieutenant F.C.

  Grand

  Greasley, 2nd Lieutenant J.R.

  Grosvenor Hotel

  “Guiffon”

  Hall, Lieutenant W.H.

  Hancock, 2nd Lieutenant J.M.

  Harrison, Lieutenant W.L.

  Hauberge

  Hazebrouck (‘Hazebruck’)

  Hemming, 2nd Lieutenant W.H.

  Higgins, Captain W.W.

  Hollebeke

  Hotel de France

  Houplines

  Houtem (‘Houltem’)

  Houthulst Forest

  Howes, Major

  Jenkins

  Jewkes, 2nd Lieutenant J.L.

  Jones, 2nd Lieutenant L.S.R.

  “Jubilee Hall”

  Keller, Lieutenant C.F.

  Kelsey

  Kemmel

  Kennedy, 2nd Lieutenant J.G.

  King’s Cross

  King-Clark, Alexander ‘King’

  King-Clark, Elspeth

  King-Clark, Lieutenant Commander Robert

  Kings Head

  Knocker, Eileen Agnes ‘Eily’

  Knocker, Gladwys Mainwaring ‘Gal’ or ‘Gally’

  Knocker, Katherine Margaret Elizabeth Mainwaring ‘Elsie’

  Knocker, Mary Ethel ‘May’

  Knocker, Winifred Victoria ‘Gin’ or ‘Ginny’

  La Bassee

  La Gorgue

  Lamotte-Warfuseé (‘Warfuseé)

  Landon, Captain G. de L.

  Le Commerce

  Ledegem

  Leitch, Captain A.A.

  Les Gobelins

  “Les Invalides”

  Lonsdales

  Lovie (‘Lovée’)

  Mackie’s

  “Maid of the Mountains”

  Maison Lyons

  Maricourt Wood

  Marquise

  Marshall, 2nd Lieutenant L.,

  Matthews, 2nd Lieutenant C.D.

  McCudden, Captain J.

  McElroy, Captain G.E.H.

  McKinnon, 2nd Lieutenant J.F.

  McLeod Innes, 2nd Lieutenant P.

  Miles, Major

  Mont Rouge

  Moore, Captain G.B.

  Moorslede

  Morrison, Captain K.S.

  “Naughty Wife”

  Nethersole, Major N.H.B.

  Neuve Eglise

  Northwood

  “Nothing but the Truth”

  Pavilion

  Peacock, Captain E.F.

  “Peg of my Heart”

  Peronne

  Pilcher, 2nd Lieutenant T.F.

  Pitt, Lieutenant G.H.

  Polderhoek Chateau (‘Poldernock Ridge’)

  Polygon Wood

  Poperinghe

  Proven

  Queens

  Quesnoy Sur Deule

  “Razzle Dazzle”

  Reeves, Captain H.G.

  Richthofen, Captain Baron von

  Robb, 2nd Lieutenant R.E.

  Roeselare (‘Roulers’)

  “Romance”

  Rosenthal, 2nd Lieutenant A.,

  Rouen

  “Roxana”

  Sage, 2nd Lieutenant D.M.

  Savoy

  Scholer

  Scott, Lieutenant D.H.

  Serny

  Severin

  Shanks, Lieutenant D.

  Skundles

  “Soldier Boy”

  Spreadbury, Lieutenant H.J.

  Ste Marie Cappel

  Steenvoorde

  Surcamps (‘Sur Camps’)

  Swifts

  Sydall, Captain C.B.

  Symons, Captain H.L.

  “Tabs”

  “Tails Up”

  “The 13th Chair”

  “The Aristocrats”

  “The Boy”

  The Bull

  “The Lilac Domino”

  “The Live Wire”

  “The Optimists”

  The Red Lion

  Thezy-Gilmout (‘Thezy’)

  “Three Cheers”

  Tipperary

  Tiptaft, 2nd Lieutenant C.P.

  Towne, Lieutenant L.N.F.,

  Troc

  Trollope, Captain J.L.

  Vert Fallon

  Villers Bretonneux (‘Villers Bret’)

  Vlamertinghe

  Weedon, Captain L.S.

  “When Knights were Bold”

  Wigg, Lieutenant V.

  Williams, Lieutenant T.M.

  Withington, Captain T.E.

  Wylie, 2nd Lieutenant A.E.

  “Yes Uncle”

  YMCA Club

  “Zig Zag”

  Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his father, Cuthbert, at Haileybury School.

  Guy in Royal Military Academy uniform photographed with his father.

  Guy in Royal Military Academy uniform, 1917.

  Guy, his mother and father, at Dover during 1917.

  Guy with his sister, May, and father.

  ‘A’ Flight, 65 Squadron, RFC. Wye, Kent, October 1917. Left to right: 2nd Lt. A. Rosenthal, 2nd Lt. V. Wigg, 2nd Lt. G.M. Knocker, 2nd Lt. G. Bremridge, Capt. W.W. Higgins and Lt. K.S. Morrison.

  Pilots of 65 Squadron RFC at Wye, Kent (or Wyton, Cambs?), September 1917, in preparation for going to France. Standing, left to right: 2nd Lt. L. Marshall, Lt. B. Balfour, 2nd Lt. G. Bremridge, Lt. G.H. Pitt, 2nd Lt. E.H. Cutbill, Maj. J.A. Cunningham (OC), Capt. L.S. Weeden, Capt. T.E. Withington, Lt. W.L. Harrison, Lt. D.H. Scott MC. Seated, left to right: Lt. C.F. Keller, Lt. E.G.S. Gordon, Lt. G.M. Cox, Lt. K.S. Morrison, 2nd Lt. A. Rosenthal, Lt. H.L. Symons, 2nd Lt. V. Wigg, 2nd Lt. G.M. Knocker. (Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London. Q67792)

  The front of Guy’s Diary. A photograph of him as OC ‘B’ Flight No. 40 Training School taken in 1917 faces his drawings of the RGA and RFC badges.

  Sopwith Camels of ‘A’ Flight, 65 Squadron, RFC. The aeroplane nearest, B2419, was Guy’s aircraft and was called ‘Pooh Bah’.

  Pooh Bah at Wye, 1917.

  Guy with his Sopwith Camel.

  Lieutenant Douglas Shanks and Camel from 65 Squadron. He was injured in a flying accident on 31 January 1918, although the photograph is dated January 1919.

  A pen and ink sketch by Guy of a British SE 5 aircraft.

  Another sketch by Guy of a German Albatross DV.

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p; A cartoon strip by Guy depicting an encounter with the Hun (date unknown).

  A caricature of Guy, dated 1934.

  Guy with his Merlin — he kept two (‘Jenny I’ and ‘Jenny II’) in his later RAF career.

  Guy with his wife, Cynthia, and his sister, ‘Ginny’, in 1960 at their home in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire.

  A post-war photograph of Guy (date unknown).

  Group Captain Guy Mainwaring Knocker dressed for inspection of Oakley House School Cadet Corps, 23 July 1962.

 

 

 


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