__NOTOC__ Andrew Moncrieff Given (30 January 1886 – 19 July 1916) was a New Zealand

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er. He played one first-class match for

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in 1914/15. He was killed in action during

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. Given was born at

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in 1886 and was educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city. Prior to World War I he worked as a stationery salesman.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 57. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in January 1915, joining the 8th battalion of the AIF at

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.Andrew Moncrief Given
Online Cenotaph, Auckland Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2022. 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. The action Given and Pratt were killed in preceded the

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and was part of the

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. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Australian Memorial at

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in France and in

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in Dunedin.

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* 1886 births 1916 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Dunedin Australian military personnel killed in World War I {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1880s-stub

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