Anderson, George

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Category: 1917-18

George Anderson

royal scots

1st Batt. and then the 3rd Batt. Royal Scots Guards
He is remembered with honour on The Menin Gate. Ypres, St Bride’s Roll of Honour and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 2 Line 27.

The family home was at 5, Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh. The son of George and Lindsay Anderson.
Siblings: George had two sisters, Marie and Christina and two brothers, Robert and David.

George Anderson was brought up in the town, where his father was a travelling draper. He was the eldest child with two brothers and two sisters who all lived at home with their parents and grandmother; Violet Lindeagle.

On the 1901 Census he was described as working as a postman with the G.P.O. By the time he joined up, George was employed at the Singer Sewing Machine Factory at Kilbowie. Clydebank. He was living in Clydebank when he enlisted.

George was reported as wounded in October 1915 but returned to the front. He died of wounds received fighting in the torrential rain at Flanders Fields on 31 July 1917. His remains were not recovered. He is remembered on the Menin Gate at Ypres. (Panel 11).

His brother Robert served with the 2nd Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.