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World War One / Walter Anderson?
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 07:39 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone. I’m trying to find ANY details of the WW1 army service of my wife’s uncle, Walter Anderson, from Liverpool. Walter was born at 42 Danby St, Everton, on 12th March 1889, son of James Anderson from Scotland (d 1895) and Margaret (d 1900), nee Bewsher. In 1891 they lived at 47 Rendall Street, Everton.
Walter went on to be a shipping clerk in the sugar works, where he was working in the 1911 census. After his parents died he went to live with his Bewsher grandparents in 68 Landseer Road, and this was his address when he got married to Martha Gamble on 29th August 1914. He had not joined up by then, nor had he in July 1915 when he witnessed his brother’s wedding: it seems likely that he was conscripted in late 1916/ early 1917. In the 1919 voter records he is listed as being away on military service. This is our only evidence that he served. After the war he and Martha, who lived throughout their marriage at 35 Baltic Street, Anfield, had two children (1921 and 1922), and he died in 1928 of a heart condition, aged 39.
The family has a photo of a man in sergeant’s uniform of the King’s Liverpool Regiment whom they believed to be Walter. However, on-line KLR records only show a private Walter Anderson who was killed in 1918. There are no medals still around, that we are aware of. His brother William Anderson was in the KLR (S/N 9271, Liverpool Scottish, later transferred to the Gordon Highlanders), but his medals and record show that he was a private, not sergeant. (There was a sergeant William Anderson but with a different S/N.)
Based on this very limited information, can anyone help me to find out where Walter served?
Walter went on to be a shipping clerk in the sugar works, where he was working in the 1911 census. After his parents died he went to live with his Bewsher grandparents in 68 Landseer Road, and this was his address when he got married to Martha Gamble on 29th August 1914. He had not joined up by then, nor had he in July 1915 when he witnessed his brother’s wedding: it seems likely that he was conscripted in late 1916/ early 1917. In the 1919 voter records he is listed as being away on military service. This is our only evidence that he served. After the war he and Martha, who lived throughout their marriage at 35 Baltic Street, Anfield, had two children (1921 and 1922), and he died in 1928 of a heart condition, aged 39.
The family has a photo of a man in sergeant’s uniform of the King’s Liverpool Regiment whom they believed to be Walter. However, on-line KLR records only show a private Walter Anderson who was killed in 1918. There are no medals still around, that we are aware of. His brother William Anderson was in the KLR (S/N 9271, Liverpool Scottish, later transferred to the Gordon Highlanders), but his medals and record show that he was a private, not sergeant. (There was a sergeant William Anderson but with a different S/N.)
Based on this very limited information, can anyone help me to find out where Walter served?