Knights, Robert Edgar

Date of birth:: 1921 (London, United Kingdom)
Date of death:: 2004
Service number:: 155224
Nationality:: British

Biography

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Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Flying Officer
Unit:: No. 619 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Awarded on:: April 21st, 1944

For completing 30 operational sorties.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Acting Flight Lieutenant
Unit:: No. 617 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Awarded on:: January 12th, 1945
Awarded for:: Operation Catechism

"This officer has displayed the highest qualities of devotion to duty in operations against the enemy. Since being awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross, Flight Lieutenant Knights has completed a large number of sorties, many of them against well defended and difficult targets. He
has invariably pressed home his attacks with great determination and precision and his coolness and courage under enemy fire has been most inspiring. Flight Lieutenant Knights took part in all three attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. In the final operation, during which the vessel was
sunk, this pilot pressed home his attack with great resolution. His was one of the several bombs which straddled the vessel."