OBITUARY
BRIGADIER-GENERAL ANDREW.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Obituary: Brigadier-General A. W Andrew, C.M.G., aged 69.
Brigadier-General Andrew, who was born in Christchurch in 1366, was the first New Zealander to obtain a direct commission in the British Army. He joined the Devonshire Regiment in India in 1886. He commanded the 6th and 10th New Zealand contingents in the South African War. Serving in the Great War he was five times mentioned in despatches and was promoted to brigadier-general in 1916. He was Chief Commissioner of the New Zealand Boy Scouts’ Association to 1929.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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95OBITUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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