James Macdonald-Anderson

Name

James Macdonald-Anderson

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

15/11/1916
21

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
6741
Seaforth Highlanders (the Ross-Shire Buffs)
1st/5th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
X11.E.17A
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mill, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, Nr Rickmansworth, St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End

Pre War

James MacDonald Anderson was born in Dundee and by 1901 the family had moved to Mill End, Rickmansworth. By the time of the 1911 census, at age 15, he was working as a grocer’s assistant. He was living with his parents John, 50, a journeyman currier (i.e. leather worker), and Mary (nee Harrington), 45, a machinist, and seven siblings at 5 Pretoria Cottages, Mill End. Later he worked at Croxley Mill.

At his death, he was recorded as the son of Mary Ann and the late John Anderson of 52 Church Lane, Mill End, Rickmansworth, Herts. The Army paid £4.2s.3d to his mother.

Recorded as enlisting in Watford.

Wartime Service

Formerly S/1719, Private, 7th Seaforth Highlanders.

He had probably been wounded two days previously at the Battle of the Ancre, when the 51st Division, of which his unit was part, attacked and captured the important village of Beaumont Hamel with its network of caverns and a great store of machine-guns.

Died of his wounds.

Additional Information

James is also commemorated on the family headstone in Rickmansworth (Chorley Road) Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:|

Acknowledgments

Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins