KNOWLES, WILLIAM LEONARD Rank: Lieutenant Service No: VX52921 Date of Death: 20/03/1943 Age: 30 Regiment/Service: Australian Army Ordnance Corps A.I.F. Ord. Field Pk. Grave Reference 1.T.B.14. Cemetery SPRINGVALE WAR CEMETERY, MELBOURNE Additional Information: Son of Sydney and Mary Ann Knowles. CWGC - Cemetery Details
An unfortunate accident Returned Officer Shot Lieutenant William Leonard Knowles. recently returned from overseas, died in Caulfield Military Hospital, Melbourne, on Saturday, from a pistol shot wound. He was staying with Colonel and Mrs. Gray, of East St. Kilda. Col. Gray was cleaning one of the pistols that Lieut. Knowles had brought home with him from abroad when it dropped and went off and Lieut. Knowles was shot in the chest.
