Second-Lieutenant Cecil Leonard Knox
Royal Engineers, 150th Field Company

For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty.

Age : 29

Died : 4 February 1943, Nuneaton

Twelve bridges were entrusted to this officer for demolition and all of them were successfully destroyed. In the case of one steel-girder bridge the destruction of which he personally supervised, the time fuse failed to act. Without hesitation Second-Lieutenant Knox ran to the bridge under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, and when the enemy were actually upon the bridge, he tore away the time fuse and lit the instantaneous-fuse, to do which he had to get under the bridge. This was an act of the highest devotion to duty, entailing the gravest risks, which as a practical civil engineer, he fully realised.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

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