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Murray: 'B'Sqn. Darling, Western Downs & Border Districts, previous service in 1QMI & 5QIB.
B5207: soldier from S. Brisbane Qld., 16 months 1QMI & 14 months 5QIB.
URL1: soldier aged 21 from S. Brisbane, born in Qld next of kin father in S. Brisbane, 16 months 1st Qld. Contingent & 14 months 5th Qld. Contingent.
URL3: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL4: 'The Whole Facts of the Knyvett Case - KNYVETT FB (Frank Berners)' published in Auckland 1910 by Knyvett Defence Committee.
Bne. Courier: SM Finds Brother After 23 Years Apart - From a chance glance at the 'Lost, Found, Personal column of The Courier-Mail yesterday Mr. PG Knyvett SM, learned that his brother, Lieut. Colonel Francis B. KNYVETT, was alive and living in Indianapolis USA. Neither Mr. Knyvett nor any other member of the family in Australia had heard of him for more than 23 years. Lieutenant-Colonel KNYVETT, who was born in Toowoomba about 62 years ago, enlisted in the first Queensland Contingent which served in the Boer War. He rose to the rank of Captain, and won the DSO. After the Boer War he went to New Zealand. At the outbreak of the last war he was in South Africa, and served under his former enemy, General Botha, in the campaign against the Germans in Africa. He then went to England and joined the Royal Field Artillery with the rank of Major. He was wounded seven times, and was a Lieutenant-Colonel when the war ended. After the armistice in 1918 he went to the United States about a memorial to his brother, the late Captain RH Knyvett, a former Presbyterian minister in Queensland, who had served with the AIF and the Royal Flying Corps, and who had died in New York while on a lecture tour for the United States Government. A replica of this memorial is in the Queensland Art Gallery. The advertisement, which was apparently inserted by Lieutenant Colonel Knyvett's wife, asked for Eric Lawrence (Jack) Knyvett, who is now in Carlton, Sydney, with his mother.
URL5: 'Knyvett Brothers in Boer War and First World War' by John Myers Sabertache 1.3.2006.
URL8: suggestions of a 'second Dreyfus case' in NZ.
URL9: support for Capt. KNYVETT from No. 1Coy NZGA 8.1.1910.
URL10: The Suevic has arrived [c9.1902] with a detachment of Australian soldiers returning from South Africa. The following are booked to Brisbane - Lieutenant SJ TURNOVER, F KNYVETT, JF NESSER, SJM CAVAYE, A BELLOTT and CE DUTTON.
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