Rushden Man in a Field Bakery

Mr R H Knight, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Knight, of 30 Albion-place, Rushden, is doing good work in the Field Bakery Section, 19th Company, Army Service Corps. Pte. Knight left Rushden on March 21st 1914, for Queensland, and is now serving with the Australian Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. Prior to leaving Rushden he worked in Mr Fred Knight’s factory.

The Master Bakers’ Association of Brisbane gave a send-off to 15 of their late employees, including Pte. Knight. The men were in charge of Lieut. Murray. The president of the association (Mr McDougall) said that although the men might not be going to the firing lines they were going to make up a section without which the men in the firing line would not be of much use. He paid a tribute to the manly bearing of the men, who, he was sure, wherever they went, would do all that was required of them.

Lieut. Murray responded. He said Queensland was sending a sample of bakers, who would hold their own with any other section sent from Australia.