Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 03/11/1914
- Place of Enlistment
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 18/06/1895
- Place of Birth
- Launching Place, Victoria
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- School(s) Attended
- Melbourne University
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Mrs. L. Badham (mother), Wahroonga NSW
- Burial Place
Gallipoli Ari Burnu Cemetery, plot 1, row G, grave 13
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Lieutenant
- Final Unit
- 8 Light Horse Regiment AIF
Fate
Died on 7 August 1915, Gallipoli, Turkey
Commemoration
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 6, Canberra ACT
Notes
Anderson entered the Royal Military College on 7 March 1912 and was a member of the Honour Guard at the naming ceremony in Canberra on 12 March 1913. His class was graduated early on 2 November 1914 and he joined the 8th Light Horse Regiment the following day as a Lieutenant, landing on Gallipoli on 21 May 1915. He was in the first line of light horsemen in the charge on The Nek, Walkers Ridge on 7 August 1915 during which he was mortally wounded. He died later in hospital on the beach at Anzac Cove.
Description - height 5 feet 5¾ inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 32-35 inches.
Sources
Charles Bean, 'Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18' (Vol. II, p.623)
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Collections Record: H12611
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'The Honour Guard at the Canberra Commencement Ceremony', ACT Heritage Library http://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial/honour_guard_at_canberra_commencement_ceremony_1913