This document is the King's Commission to Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Knight. He was a pilot in 105 Squadron, operating Bristol Blenheim IV bombers out of RAF Watton in Norfolk.

The date of the commission of the 28th July is especially poignant. Three months later, on the evening of the 28th October 1940, P/O Knight went missing in Blenheim T1891 during a mission to bomb Homburg in the Saar region of Germany. No trace of the aircraft or its crew were ever found. P/O Knight and his fellow crew members, Squadron Leader CW Grannum and Sergeant JE Greenwood have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

P/O Knight was 26 years of age at the time of his death and was the husband of Eva Marie Knight, a resident of Bloomsbury, London.

Some photographs of Norman Knight in civilian life are also exhibited below.


Top left - Norman Knight with his son in 1938, Highbury, London
Top right - Norman Knight 1935
Bottom - Norman Knight July 1939