FOUND DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 281, 27 November 1928, Page 9

FOUND DEAD.

LIEUT.-COLONEL ANDREWS. WELL-KNOWN DEFENCE OFFICER. FINE RECORD OF SERVICE. Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Andrews, A.A., and Q.M.G. Northern Command, one of the most kindly and popular officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps, was found dead in his home in Maurice Avenue, Remuera, last night. Colonel Andrews had not been to the Defence Office since last Friday, and the staff became alarmed yesterday when they received no response to repeated telephone calls. Last night Major Finnis called at Colonel Andrews' residence, and received no reply to his ring at the door. As there was no lights visible, he made an entrance through a window and found Colonel Andrews lying dead in the passage dressed in his pyjamas.

Colonel Andrews had not been in good health lately, and it is surmised that he succumbed to a heart attack. His wife is absent on a visit to Christchurch. He had no family. Lieut.-Colonel Andrews, who was 53 years of age, spent his life in soldiering. He was a member of the Wellington Navals when a youth, and subsequently going to the South Island joined the Cromwell Rifle Volunteers. Afterwards he was a member of the New Zealand Engineers at Christchurch, where he gained his first commission. On the formation of the New Zealand Staff Corps he passed his examinations and became a permanent officer in 1911. He was promoted captain in 1912 and major in 1917. He held the position of adjutant of the South Canterbury Regiment from 1911 to 1913, and was officer commanding Group 10, Timaru, from May, 1913, to December, 1914. On the outbreak of the Great War Colonel Andrews wa3 at various training camps and went away as second in command of the Ota go Regiment in March, 1916. He fought on Gallipoli and was wounded, being invalided home. He then went to G.H.Q., Wellington, and was D.O. from February to August, 1917. Afterwards he held the position of A.A.G. From August 1, 1919, to April, 1922, Colonel Andrews was General Staff Officer at Wellington, ranking first grade in charge of "A" branch. He was appointed staff officer in charge of No. 2 Regimental District, with headquarters at Paeroa, from April, 1922, to early in the present year, when he was promoted to A.A. and Q.M.G. of the Northern Command, with headquarters at Auckland. His rank of Lieut.-Colonel was conferred in December last. Lieut.-Colonel Andrews was born at sea. His boyhood and youth were spent in Wellington.