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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Prittlewel
• Land Essex, England
• Last residence Tottenham
• Family Son of Charles and Jane Anderson, of 263, North Rd., Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea; one of five children.
• Education Leigh Road School; Southend High School for Boys
• Profession Carpenter
• Extra info Friends called him 'Dits'; clever footballer, was captain of the Leigh Road team, inside forward with the first team of Southend United and inside man with Woolwich Arsenal.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment January 1915, Shoreditch
• Service number 33437
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 56th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career To France 20 July 1915

Death

• Wounded 10 December, Voormezele
• Type of wounds Died of multiple gunshot wounds, in n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IV - C - 24A

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