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VC964 William Herbert Anderson
Name William Herbert Anderson No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 964 Awards VC
Regiment Highland Light Infantry commanding 12th (Service) Battalion
Later Royal Highland Fusiliers
Now 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment Of Scotland
Rank VC Won Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Maricourt Wood, Albert to Peronne Road, Somme, France
Buried/Location Ashes Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, 6 miles east of Albert, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 2, Row G, Grave 36
Gazetted 3 May 1918
VC Presented 31 May 1918 by King George V at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Becketts Park, Leeds to his widow, Gertrude
Memorials
P Headstone, Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, 6 miles east of Albert, Somme, France
Named on Family Grave, New Kilpatrick Churchyard, Manse Road, Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Largo & Newburn Parish Church, Upper Largo, Fife, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Lundin Links, Fife
Named on War Memorial, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Glasgow Acadamy, Glasgow, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church, Kelvinhaugh Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Western Club, 33 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, Scotland
Memorial Plaque, St Mungo's Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland
Original Grave Marker, Invershin, Sutherland, Scotland
By The Way…
All four Anderson brothers died in the war, Alexander, Charles, Edward, and lastly William.
VC Held By
I.W.M. /Lord Ashcroft Collection
BORN 29 December 1881
DIED 25 March 1918 AGE 36
VC Won 25 March 1918 AGE 36
Place VC Won Bois Favieres, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
