Andrew Given

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2016}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Andrew Given

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| fullname = Andrew Moncrieff Given

| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|1|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|1916|7|19|1886|1|30|df=yes}}

| death_place = Pozieres, Somme, France

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| club1 = Otago

| year1 = 1914/15

| date = 12 May

| year = 2016

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37162.html CricInfo

}}

Andrew Moncrieff Given{{efn|Some sources spell Given's middle name with only one f.}} (30 January 1886 – 19 July 1916) was a New Zealand cricketer.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsVdAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Andrew+Moncrieff+Given%22&pg=PA499|title=Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918|first=Andrew|last=Renshaw|date=8 May 2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781408832363|via=Google Books}} He played one first-class match for Otago during the 1914–15 season.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/37162.html |title=Andrew Given |access-date=12 May 2016 |publisher=CricInfo}} He was killed in action during World War I.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/721125/GIVEN,%20ANDREW%20MONCRIEF |title=Given, Andrew Moncrieff |access-date=12 May 2016 |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Andrew+Moncrieff+Given%22&pg=PA245|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|first=Nigel|last=McCrery|date=30 July 2015|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=9781473827141|via=Google Books}}

Given was born at Dunedin 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. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in January 1915, joining the 8th battalion of the AIF at Melbourne.[https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/81530?n=andrew+given&from=%2Fwar-memorial%2Fonline-cenotaph%2Fsearch&ordinal=0 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 Battle of Pozières and was part of the Battle of the Somme.{{cite book |series=Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 |volume=III |title=The Australian Imperial Force in France: 1916 |last=Bean |first=C. E. W. |author-link=Charles Bean |year=1941 |orig-year=1929 |publisher=Angus and Robertson |location=Sydney |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069752/ |access-date=19 July 2017 |edition=12th |oclc=271462387 |via=Australian War Memorial}} His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Australian Memorial at Fromelles in France and in Andersons Bay Cemetery in Dunedin.