Andrew Given

Andrew Moncrieff Given[lower-alpha 1] (30 January 1886 – 19 July 1916) was a New Zealand cricketer.[1] He played one first-class match for Otago in 1914/15.[2] He was killed in action during World War I.[3][4]

Andrew Given
Personal information
Full name
Andrew Moncrieff Given
Born(1886-01-30)30 January 1886
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died19 July 1916(1916-07-19) (aged 30)
Pozieres, France
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 12 May 2016

Given was born at Dunedin in 1886 and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city. Prior to World War I he worked as a stationery salesman.[5] He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in January 1915, joining the 8th battalion of the AIF at Melbourne.[6]

After training, Given embarked for Europe in September 1915 and served with the battalion during the Gallipoli campaign from December until the end of the campaign the following month. After time in Egypt, he transferred to the 60th battalion and moved to France in June 1916. He was reported as missing in action on 19 July near Pozieres on the Western Front, presumed killed on the same day and in the same battle in which Auckland player Albert Pratt was killed.[5][6] The action Given and Pratt were killed in preceded the Battle of Pozières and was part of the Battle of the Somme.[7] His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Australian Memorial at Fromelles in France and in Andersons Bay Cemetery in Dunedin.[6]

Notes
  1. Some sources spell Given's middle name with only one f.

See also

References
  1. Renshaw, Andrew (8 May 2014). Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918. A&C Black. ISBN 9781408832363 – via Google Books.
  2. "Andrew Given". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. "Given, Andrew Moncrieff". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  4. McCrery, Nigel (30 July 2015). Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473827141 – via Google Books.
  5. McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 57. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2
  6. Andrew Moncrief Given, Online Cenotaph, Auckland Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  7. Bean, C. E. W. (1941) [1929]. The Australian Imperial Force in France: 1916. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Vol. III (12th ed.). Sydney: Angus and Robertson. OCLC 271462387. Retrieved 19 July 2017 – via Australian War Memorial.


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