Dexter Lamar Knight

June 4, 1942

DEXTER KNIGHT GRADUATES FROM MILITARY SCHOOL

Riverside Military Academy closed its thirty fourth annual session on June 1st with the graduation of one hundred and twenty-seven Seniors and Post Graduates.

The colorful exercises were featured by the award of Commissions in the Army of the United States to twenty-one graduates and the designation of nineteen additional graduates to attend Service schools for completion of Commission requirements. It is believed, according to announcements made by General Sandy Beaver, President, that this total of forty represents a record in the number of Commissions for schools of this type.

Among those who graduated during the final exercises was Cadet DEXTER LAMAR KNIGHT, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Knight of Bunnell, who received the English Diploma.

June 24, 1943

Leonard Moody, DEXTER KNIGHT, Waldon (Custer) Durrance, Dan Dechman and Jimmie Crews went to Blanding this week, all being accepted into the army except Knight and Durrance who chose the Marines.

July 8, 1943

Dan Dechman, Leonard Moody of Bunnell and Jimmy Crews of Oak Hill left here today for active duty with the army at Camp Blanding. DEXTER KNIGHT and Waldon (Custer) Durrance left also for active duty with the Marines at Parris Island, S. C.

August 26, 1943

Another letter this week from Marine Private DEXTER KNIGHT at Parris Island. S. C. Dexter says he likes the service fine and thinks "Marines are the finest bunch of service men of them all." He also said he and Custer Durrance who is there with him are hoping they can get home on a short leave soon.

September 16, 1943

Marine Privates Waldon (Custer) Durrance and DEXTER KNIGHT are here on leave visiting their parents. They have just finished primary training at Parris Island, S. C.

December 23, 1943

Well fellows, here it is Christmas, 1943 - a heck of a long time since Christmas, 1941. Let's all hope it will be a short, short time 'till December 25, 1944. All I can say to you is that we certainly hope you see your own special wish come true this Christmas Day. Our own Christmas is being made very enjoyable by being remembered by all you fellows with your letters and cards. Since last week we acknowledge cards from T/Sgt. Steve Cyzycki of Courtland, Ala., A/C Howard Hunter at the University of South Carolina, S. C., S/Sgt. Louis Simpson at Sheppard Field, Texas, Pfc. DEXTER KNIGHT at Marine Base, New River N. C., Seaman Mike Trad at Jacksonville.

January 27, 1944

DEXTER KNIGHT, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Knight, has recently received his rating as corporal. He is with the Marines at Camp LeJeune, New River, N. C. (Congratulations, Dexter)

February 17, 1944

DEXTER KNIGHT, son of Mr and Mrs. K. K. Knight, in the Marine Corps, has just attained the rank of sergeant, it was learned here today. He has been made an instructor at New River, N. C.

March 9, 1944

Marine Sgt. DEXTER KNIGHT came home last week-end. He had just enough time to say hello to his folks before returning to Parris Island for duty.

May 11, 1944

Marine Sgt. DEXTER KNIGHT has sent a wire to his parents here which point he was recently from Camp Elliott, California. Dexter has been at Cherry Point, N. C. for several months.

January 4, 1945

Marine Sergeant DEXTER KNIGHT has sent to his mother, Mrs. K. K. Knight, here the official certificate of "King Neptune" certifying that Sgt. Knight is now a full fledged "Shellback." One can only become a Shellback by being properly initiated during proper ceremonies when crossing the equator. Sgt. Knight is now somewhere in the Pacific.

March 22, 1945

This is one of those weeks when we have very little news about you guys and gals in service. And it means that each of you are too busy winning the war to do much writing. However we have a letter here from Hal Murray, he writes:

"Guess by this time you have already learned that we are in the Hawaiian Islands. George Clegg and I had a pass yesterday to town-Honolulu. Had a very nice time. After we arrived there decided to go to the beach - Wakiki. We then went in swimming. Had a good time and started back to Honolulu and whom do you suppose we saw? A Marine named DEXTER KNIGHT. Boy, did he look good to us! He seemed just as glad to see us, and we know we were glad to see him.

Please send me The Tribune. If you can't read this address get it from mother.

Give our regards to all the folks back home. Will be back soon."

(Surely glad to learn you and George ran into Dexter. Incidentally, Dexter is now back in the States, his parents here got a wire from him last Saturday saying he was in California then.)

Marine Sgt. DEXTER KNIGHT who has traveled extensively over the Pacific and who has been in Hawaii for several weeks, has arrived back in the states, he advised his parents by wire Saturday. Don't know whether he will get home or not.

April 5, 1945

And a Marine who has been wandering around the Southwest Pacific a bit for several months is here at home on a 30-day leave - Sgt. DEXTER KNIGHT. According to a story sent us by Marine Corps Public Relations office in Atlanta, Dexter is "Attached to a service battalion. He has served on New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, and Pearl Harbor." Dexter arrived in Bunnell Tuesday.

May 3, 1945

Sgt. DEXTER KNIGHT left Saturday for Camp LeJeune, N. C. after a 30-day leave here with his parents. He recently returned from a tour of duty in the Pacific theater.

August 2, 1945

A release from the public relation office of Camp LeJeune, N. C., in which they tell us that Marine Sergeant DEXTER L. KNIGHT has graduated from the Field Telephone School.

"He is now qualified to install and maintain all types of telephone equipment used in the field by the Marine Corps. The eight-week course included the theory of telephony, electricity, maps and diagrams, ties and splices, switchboard operation and training maneuvers in the field."