Date de naissance: 16/02/1895

Lieu de naissance: Tolaga Bay, Uawa, New Zealand

Profession: Conducteur de chevaux

Pays: New Zealand

Force armée: New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Rang: Private

Numéro de service: 30153

Incorporation date: 15/08/1916

Unités:  —  Otago Regiment, 3rd Bn.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 17/10/1917

Lieu de décès: 2nd ANZAC Corps Main Dressing Station, Brandhoek, Belgique

Cause du décès: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Âge: 22

British War Medal Médaille — 20/09/1921

Victory Medal Médaille — 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 utilisées

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