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World War One / Re: Edward Patrick Anderson
« on: Monday 07 March 16 22:35 GMT (UK)  »
thank you both again: however as I'm an American some of your military terminology is confusing
to me (ie "clerk" - to me means a clerical worker) and ("TF Battalions" ???). I'll have to familiarize myself with new terminology! I was able to track down a copy of the Wyrall volumes on the Kings Liverpool Regiment in the New York Public Library (I'm in New York City) It is listed as being in storage so I have to make a special request to see it. I've bought a few books including: "The Missing of the Somme" by Geoff Dyer and "The Somme: the Day by Day Account" by Chris McCarthy and few others including the novel "Her Privates,We" and a DVD of a film called "The Trench". Hopefully they will give me a good overview.

Geo. Comerford

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World War One / Re: Edward Patrick Anderson
« on: Monday 07 March 16 16:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both (Km1971 & Writer 133) for your prompt replies and information - REALLY amazing!
It helps to have a real conception of how the Battle of the Somme was fought and to better understand how Private Anderson fit into it.  Do you know if it is true that for most (many?) of the
British soldiers involved, that the Somme was their first major fight and they were "unseasoned"
- so to speak? Edward Anderson was my grandfather's first cousin and was American born.
 His uncle (also an Edward Anderson) had served for nearly 10 years in the Royal House Artillery,Royal Field, 18th Irish  Regiment and 9th Queens Lancers  spent most of it in the mid-east. (he served under Field Marshal Earl Roberts and  apparently once had a bit of a set-to with Lord Kitchener who threatened to court-martialed!)  He gave an interview to the "Boston
Daily Globe" on 11/29/ 1914 about his service under General Roberts who he described as the "greatest friend a soldier ever had". I speculate that Edward  Patrick may have been inspired by his
uncle's tales and decided to join up himself.

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World War One / Re: Edward Patrick Anderson
« on: Sunday 06 March 16 23:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Sooty:
Edward Patrick Anderson was born in 1888 in Whitinsville, Mass.  He was not born in Mullinavat
Kilkenny (his father was). He died on 8/8/1916 in the Battle of the Somme. His body was never recovered and his name is listed on the Thiepval Memorial in France.


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