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Person    | Male  Born 25/5/1913  Died 24/5/1988

Rev. W. G. Knapper

Categories: Religion

Rev. W. G. Knapper

Image source: Kate Dillon

We thank Kate Dillon, Knapper's daughter, who has sent this photo and information about her father.

Rev. William George Knapper began his working life, 1923-40, in the printing and book binding trades. In WW2 he served in India with the Royal Engineers, reaching the rank of Captain. 1946-50 he trained as a vicar in Liverpool. He then served as the vicar of All Saints Haggerston, 1953-8, and then as vicar of the Kentish Town parish church, St John the Baptist, through until the year of his death.

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Rev. W. G. Knapper

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