Died long after the echo of guns died away. He enlisted in the Bucks Hussars and transferred to the Fusiliers.

Twice gassed, he returned to his service with the Post Office but died in Beckenham Cottage Hospital on 20 March 1920.

A keen cricketer, he was the youngest son of Charles Anderson of Burnhill Rd and husband of Manda Annie Anderson. Reported in the Beckenham Journal on 27.3.1920.