Andrews Memorial Stone at the churchyard
St Nicholas church Brockenhurst

Pte Andrew WOODLEY, who was wounded at Flers in the Battle of the Somme, France, on 14th September 1916 and died in Brockenhurst Hospital England on 22 Sept 1916. Andrew was the son of Albert and Ann WOODLEY of Nireaha, near Ekatahuna, Wairarapa Province, New Zealand.

'Private Andrew Woodley of the Wellington Infantry Battalion B Company, 11th Reinforcement, left Wellington on 1st April, 1916 on board the troop ship Manganui. He was at Suez on 3rd May and three weeks later at sea again, this time aboard the Ivernia bound for France.

On the 27th June he joined the 2nd battalion Wellington Regiment in preparation for the Battle of Somme. On the 14th Sept near Flers, he suffered head wounds . Andrew was immediately transferred to England and arrived at No.1 NZGH Brockenhurst on 20th Sept and died on the 22nd. He was buried the next day. He was the first NZ serviceman to die at Brockenhurst.'