Jack Llewellyn Knight

Knight's Medal of Honor reached his family in Texas, not Asia. The Handbook of Texas says he graduated from Weatherford Junior College in 1938 and enlisted with his brothers Curtis and Loyd in Troop F, 124th Cavalry, Texas National Guard. On February 2, 1945, near Loi-Kang, Burma, he led his troop against fortified positions, was blinded by a grenade and kept leading until he was mortally wounded. Lord Mountbatten named the ground Knight's Hill and in 1972 dedicated a marble marker in Mineral Wells. Gen. Bruce Magruder gave his father the medal at Camp Wolters on June 25, 1945.

What the plaque says

Jack Llewellyn Knight Born on a farm near Garner (4 miles north) Jack L. Knight enlisted in the Texas National Guard in 1940. Mobilized for service during World War II, his unit was posted to Southeast Asia to help open the Burma Road between India and China. During one of the last battles in that region, Knight was killed while leading an attack on a Japanese position. Four months later, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only one awarded for the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. In 1949 he was buried in this cemetery named for his great-grandfather. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Mineral Wells State Park and Trailway — 2.3 mi
  A Cross Timbers park on the old Camp Wolters grounds, built around a 1922 water-supply lake for a spa town, with Penitentiary Hollow's rock climbing and a 20-mile trailway.
• Chandor Gardens — 12 mi
  A portrait painter's English-and-Chinese garden rooms, blasted and planted from a bare 3.5-acre hillside in Weatherford beginning in 1936, abandoned after 1978 and reopened by the city in 2002.

More markers nearby

• Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway — 1.8 mi
• Fort Wolters — 3.1 mi
• Old Camp Wolters — 4.3 mi
• Authon Cemetery — 5.4 mi