Military service
Service number:
102
Age:
24
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Armoured Regiment)
Death:
November 7, 1900
Belfast, South Africa
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mr. James Anderson, Cornarulland, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, Ireland. Brother of Mr. John Anderson, 131 Wellington Street North, Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William James Anderson
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Newspaper clipping
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Gravemarker
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Letter p.2
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Letter p.1
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Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Memorial Tablet
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Newspaper Clipping
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Lt.-Col. John Weir Foote, VC, CD Armoury
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Anderson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 1 of the South African War / Nile Expedition Book of Remembrance.
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BELFAST OLD MUNICIPAL CEMETERY South Africa
Turn off the N4 toward Belfast, go under the railroad bridge, turn left at fork (Spitskop Road), turn right at Van Kraayenberg Street, and then left at Scheepers Street. The road goes from tar to bad dirt road. Continue on Scheepers Street for 150 m. The Belfast Old Municipal Cemetery is on the left and the Canadian graves are at the top-centre.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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