. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ricultureand entered the Uni-versity as an Agricul-tural student in Octo-ber 1914. In November of thatyear he enlisted in the4th Gordons. After a. period of training inAberdeen, Bedford, etc., he was sent overseasin June 1915, and served in Belgium andFrance as a bomber. He was wounded atHigh Wood on 23 July 1916 and invalidedhome. Rejoining his Battalion in the followingMay he was killed in an advance on Passchen-daele on 20 September 1917. ANDERSON, THOMAS : Lance-Corporal,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of Thomas Anderson, cabinetmaker,
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ricultureand entered the Uni-versity as an Agricul-tural student in Octo-ber 1914. In November of thatyear he enlisted in the4th Gordons. After a. period of training inAberdeen, Bedford, etc., he was sent overseasin June 1915, and served in Belgium andFrance as a bomber. He was wounded atHigh Wood on 23 July 1916 and invalidedhome. Rejoining his Battalion in the followingMay he was killed in an advance on Passchen-daele on 20 September 1917. ANDERSON, THOMAS : Lance-Corporal,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of Thomas Anderson, cabinetmaker, Aberdeen ;born, Aberdeen, 26 June 1890 ; educated atAberdeen Grammar School; graduated ,1912. He taught at Mackie Academy, Stone-haven for two years, and for another two yearswas a teacher at the Public School, enlisting he worked at a munition factoryin Aberdeen from October 1915 to May 1916. Anderson enlisted in the 3/4th Gordons, 25May 1916, went through special courses inmusketry and sniping at Stafford, and qualified.
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