BORN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, 1892. OTHER RECORDS SUGGEST THAT HE WAS BORN IN OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND, 1890. REAL NAME – ANDREW WILLIAM JAMES REID.
SON OF ANNIE ELIZABETH FERGURSON (1865-1918) & ANDREW DICK REID (1843-1910), OF SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND. HIS FATHER WAS FROM PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN OTAGO. NEW ZEALAND. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS, WHO SERVED IN THE NEW ZEALAND ARMY .
HE ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, ON 25 NOV 1911. LIVED HULL. WORKED AS A SHIP’S STEWARD.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS “JOHN WILLIAM ANDREWS”. CALLED UP ON 31 JAN 1916. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, 35 INCH CHEST, 137 LBS WEIGHT, GOOD PHYSIQUE, CLASPED HANDS TATTOO ON ARM. TRAINED AT CLIPSTONE, ARMY CAMP. POSTED TO THE HULL PALS, IN FRANCE, ON 16 APRIL 1916. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED IN THE DUG OUT. HIS BEST FRIEND , PRIVATE CLARE WAS CLEANING HIS RIFLE AND ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED A LIVE ROUND WHICH HIT JOHN WILLIAM ANDREWS IN THE THIGH AND LEGS, HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 20 MAY 1916, AGED 26
LISTED ON THE HULL GARDENER MEMORIAL, AT HULL MINSTER. BURIED AT BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS BROTHER, ALEXANDER DICK REID, SERVED IN THE 14TH NEW ZEALAND REGIMENT AND CLAIMED HIS ARMY EFFECTS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN WILLIAM ANDREWS 14/211. Real name, Andrew William James Reid. ‘John’ was born in 1892 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was the son of Andrew and Annie Reid of Gibbotson, South Island, New Zealand. Living at 14, Brunswick Avenue, Beverley Road, Hull (Army address), when war broke out, he originally joined the 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before being transferred to the 11th EYR. John was wounded during the critical days of the German Spring Offensive, and withdrawn from the front line to the field ambulances at Bertrancourt where he died of wounds on 30th May 1916. John is buried in Bertrancourt Military Cemetery; he was 26 years old.
| Name | John William Andrews |
|---|---|
| Birth Place | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1890 or Otago, New Zealand 1892. . Son of Andrew and Annie Reid, of Gibbston, South Island, New Zealand. |
| Death Date | 30 May 1916 |
| Death Place | BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE |
| Enlistment Place | Hull |
| Rank | Private |
| Regiment | East Yorkshire Regiment |
| Battalion | 11th Battalion |
| Regimental Number | 14/211 |
| Type of Casualty | Accidentally shot – Died of wounds |
| Theatre of War | Western European Theatre |
