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Son of Mrs. J. KNYVETT, Nanango, Qld.

Reginald Hugh Knyvett was born in 1884 in Australia to Edward J. Knyvett (b. England) and Jenne Swann (b. Ireland). He died at the age of 34 on 15 April 1918 in New York City. He was a Captain in the British Army (certificate 13263).
California marriage records show that Reginald Hugh Knyvett (31) married Lilian MAUDE on 18 November 1917 in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Australia to Edward Ferran Knyvett and June Swann. Lilian Isabelle Maude (23) was born in Australia to Alwyn Julian Maude and Mabel Torpy.
Capt. Knyvett served with the ANZACs in Egypt, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front, where he was severely wounded. He was the author of "Over There With the Australians."

Captian R. Hugh Knyvett, aurthor, lecturer and soldier is dead, as the result of wounds received in the first battle of the Somme, where he served with the Anzac Scouts.  Captain Knyvett died on Monday night in the Alston Sanitarium, 26 West Sixty-first Street.  He had been ill two weeks with tubercolosis, superinduced by the injuries from which he was though to have recovered.  Funeral services will be held today in the Central Presbyterian Church, 593 Madison Avenue. 

Captain Knyvett came to this country in November with is bride, who was Miss Lillian Maude, neice of Cyril Maude, the actor.  He was enthusistically received as one of the best war speakers to visit New York.  After he became ill his book "Over There With the Australians" was published.  It received much favorable comment.

Captain Knyvett entered the service as an intelligence officer, and was with the army in Egypt, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front.

Mrs. Knyvett was with her husband at his death.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN KNYVETT
Noted Queensland Soldier.
The late Captain Reginald Hugh Knyvett, whose death is reported in the United States was a brother of Mr. P. G, Knyvett, police magistrate at Gladstone, and was 31 years of age. He was well known in Gladstone, having delivered fine recruiting addresses on his return in July, last year from Gommecourt, where he was wounded in November, 1916. He enlisted in Melbourne in October, 1914, entering the ranks as a private. He gained his lieutenancy in France, and last year was discharged as unfit for further active service. After  visiting Gladstone he decided to return to the front at his own expense and enlist in the Royal Flying Corps. He went to America, where his war lectures aroused much interest. He was granted a commission as captain, and engaged by the Government of the United States to deliver war lectures throughout the country. Part of the proceeds went to the Red  Cross Society and kindred organisations. He was engaged on a war book at the time of his death, and was also con tributing war articles to 'Scribner's Magazine.' The cause of  death is unknown, but a month ago news was received in Gladstone that he was suffering from an attack, of pleurisy. Deceased was married in the United States to Lilian Maude, niece of Mr. Cyril Maude, actor, and of the late General Maude. There are two brothers serving at the front, Major F. B. Knyvett, now in Mesopotamia, who served in West Africa,  where he was severely wounded, and in Flanders and France, and has received D.S.O. and other decorations; and Company Sergt-Major F. L. Knyvett, now serving in France. The  latter has been on active service since the beginning of the war, and went through the Gallipoli campaign.