James 'Jim' Bell Knight (3 January 1918 - 11 October 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 and Carlton

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 in the VFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

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Munday won a Carji Greeves Medal

Carji Greeves Medal

The Carji Greeves Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the player adjudged Best and Fairest for the Geelong Football Club for the season....

 in 1941 for Geelong's best and fairest player. He joined Carlton in 1942 after Geelong withdrew from the competition due to the war and spent two seasons with the club.

While playing at Carlton he received military training and in 1943 he joined the RAAF at Papua New Guinea in the fight against the Japanese. He was killed when his aircraft crashed accidentally on take off from Goodenough Island

Goodenough Island

Goodenough Island in the Solomon Sea is the westernmost of the three large islands of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It lies to the east of mainland New Guinea and south west of the Trobriand Islands.It should not be confused with Goodenough's Island...

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The runner up in the Geelong Best and Fairest now wins the Jim Knight Memorial Trophy.

External links

• Blueseum profile
• http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=557376