Date of birth: 16/02/1895

Place of birth: Tolaga Bay, Uawa, New Zealand

Profession: Horse Driver

Country: New Zealand

Force: New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Rank: Private

Service number: 30153

Enlistment date: 15/08/1916

Units:  —  Otago Regiment, 3rd Bn.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 17/10/1917

Place of death: 2nd ANZAC Corps Main Dressing Station, Brandhoek, Belgium

Cause of death: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Age: 22

British War Medal Medal — 20/09/1921

Victory Medal Medal — 28/07/1922

Private Albert Herbert AGNEW ( 3rd Bn. Otago Regiment, 4th New Zealand Brigade, New Zealand Division ) died of his wounds on the 17th of October 1917. That day the 3rd Battalion Otago Regiment was holding a line between the Cemetery and Peter Pan Farm. They encountered heavy German resistance such as artillery barrages and aeroplane attacks. Presumeably during one of these attacks Private Agnew got wounded and was admitted by the New Zealand Field Ambulance. Afterwards they took him to the 2nd ANZAC Corps Main Dressing Station ( A.C.M.D.S. ) near Brandhoek where he eventually died of his injuries (gunshot wound to the back). Private Agnew was buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery no.3, where he is still remembered.

Byrne A.E., The Official History of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in the Great War 1914-1918, (Dunedin, Wilkie & Co, Ltd,), pg. 259-260. Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/139705

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=8c40a101-8167-43cc-936b-f435ad316c10

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7170013

Online Cenotaph (Auckland Museum) https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/c69

The NZEF Project (UNSW Canberra) https://nzef.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=1248