Ernest L. Knowlton

   Sergeant Ernest Lawrence Knowlton was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, December 24, 1890. He was the son of Walter and Harriet (Spare) Knowlton, and brother of Ethel and Marion. In 1900 he lived with his family at 1 Summer Ave., Malden. He was later employed as a tobacco salesman.
Knowlton enlisted in the service March 28, 1916, and was assigned to Co. E, 3d Inf. He was promoted to Corporal October 19, 1916, and subsequently to sergeant on June 9, 1917. He died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of disease, on October 23, 1918.