Major-General Sir Wyndham Charles Knight KCIE CB CSI DSO (30 November 1863 – 10 June 1942) was a British general officer who served in the British and Indian armies and saw active service in India, in the Second Boer War, and in the First World War.
[2] After leaving school, Knight trained for a career as a regular soldier at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, graduating from there in 1883 and receiving his first commission into the Worcestershire Regiment.
[4] In 1897 and 1898 Knight saw active service on the North West Frontier, in Mohmund and Tirah, and fought in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902.
He went on to command the Bombay Brigade of the 6th Poona Divisional Area and from 1912 to 1917 was an aide-de-camp to King George V.[5][2] Knight married three times: firstly, in 1896, Harriet Monica Johnston, at Sevenoaks, Kent; she died in October 1927;[6] secondly, in 1928, Alice Harriet Margaret Johnstone, at St George Hanover Square; thirdly, in 1938, Georgina Helen Pipon.
[1] With his first wife, Knight had two sons, Austen Bertram (1897–1976) and Christopher Wyndham (1899–1951), both of whom became soldiers.