Daniel Brew was born in Ireland and working as a labourer in the Invercargill area when he joined the Otago Regiment of the New Zealand Army in 1916.
He was wounded on October 13, 1917, during the Battle of "3rd Ypres," better known as Passchendaele. The concise entry ("GSW back") and a status of "seriously ill" from his gunshot wound on other pages hint at a world of pain for Private Daniel Brew. His classification as "unfit" by a Medical Board would have been a mere formality for a man paralysed from the waist down.
Daniel died not long after the announcement of the Armistice which ended the hostilities of the Great War. I cannot imagine how he and his family could have felt on that day, thirteen days before his death.
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| Invercargill Cemetery. |
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