Edwin Probart Knox-Davies
(1878—1967)


 BORN 22 January 1878 in Hanover, Cape Province, SA.
 DIED 6 August 1967 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
 
 FATHER Elijah Knox-Davies (1848-1885)
 MOTHER Emily Ellen Probart (1850-1940)
 
 MARRIED 1 Katherine De Klerk
 CHILDREN   Probart Llancelot Knox-Davies (1904-)
 Llewellyn De Klerk Knox-Davies (1906-)
 Emily Ellen Knox-Davies (1908-)
 Elizabeth Kathleen Knox-Davies (1911-)
 Maude Enid Knox-Davies (1913-)
 
 MARRIED 2 Maud Frances Thorpe (1899-1969)
 CHILDREN   Peter Sidney Knox-Davies (1929-1999)
 Maude Thorpe Knox-Davies (1922-)
 Michael John Knox-Davies (1927-)
 

Edwin was born exactly one year before the battle of Isandlwana and was educated in Britain. He was an ambulanceman on the Boer side the the Anglo-Boer war and was jailed on his 21st birthday for making pro-Boer remarks. He fought in the First World War in South-West Africa and East Africa and held the rank of Captain. He later mined diamonds at Elandsputte in the Transvaal and farmed near Malmesbury in the Cape.



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