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World War One / Re: Walter Anderson?
« on: Sunday 13 January 19 16:14 GMT (UK) »
I'm certainly very grateful for all the advice given, and apologise that this wasn't expressed.
I had no idea what to expect when I joined the group. Although the problem has not been solved, I now see "how the land lies" and have a more sober assessment as to whether the answer is actually out there.
Walter's relatives don't know that much about him, although they are keen to discover whatever they can, and I've simply been trying to follow the avenues suggested to me on FB in the hope of breakthroughs similar to what I've seen elsewhere. One of the FB connections knew of a KLR expert in N America, and he helped me with my father-in-law William Anderson's record - I've no idea how - but at least we had the service number in that case.
Their younger brother Harold joined the 4th (Lancs) Howitzer Brigade of the RFA in 1911 but was invalided out in 1916 owing to a ventral hernia arising from removal of his appendix. So one way or another all three brothers were in the army and survived.
This has been quite a journey of discovery since we did not know until a couple of years ago that William Anderson had any brothers. My wife was born to him when he was 67, as all of his previous family had died - one son murdered by the Japanese in Singapore, the other dying of TB the following year, and his first wife in 1951. Having found and got in touch with descendants of both his brothers, we are still in the process of putting what we know together and trying to fill in the gaps. Harold's granddaughter and Walter's granddaughter-in-law have both studied family history and the former has a big tree on Ancestry.
Thanks again for looking at my problem. Was Walter a sergeant in the KLR? Possibly!
I had no idea what to expect when I joined the group. Although the problem has not been solved, I now see "how the land lies" and have a more sober assessment as to whether the answer is actually out there.
Walter's relatives don't know that much about him, although they are keen to discover whatever they can, and I've simply been trying to follow the avenues suggested to me on FB in the hope of breakthroughs similar to what I've seen elsewhere. One of the FB connections knew of a KLR expert in N America, and he helped me with my father-in-law William Anderson's record - I've no idea how - but at least we had the service number in that case.
Their younger brother Harold joined the 4th (Lancs) Howitzer Brigade of the RFA in 1911 but was invalided out in 1916 owing to a ventral hernia arising from removal of his appendix. So one way or another all three brothers were in the army and survived.
This has been quite a journey of discovery since we did not know until a couple of years ago that William Anderson had any brothers. My wife was born to him when he was 67, as all of his previous family had died - one son murdered by the Japanese in Singapore, the other dying of TB the following year, and his first wife in 1951. Having found and got in touch with descendants of both his brothers, we are still in the process of putting what we know together and trying to fill in the gaps. Harold's granddaughter and Walter's granddaughter-in-law have both studied family history and the former has a big tree on Ancestry.
Thanks again for looking at my problem. Was Walter a sergeant in the KLR? Possibly!