Richard Henry Anderson
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Richard Henry Anderson was born in 1895 in Stoke Bardolph and was the son of James an agricultural labourer and Eliza Emma Anderson nee Cremer of Flintham, Newark, Notts. His father James was born in 1860 in Bounre Lincolnshire and his mother Eliza Emma Cremer was born in 1863 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, they were married in 1880 in Bourne and went on to have the following children, George b1887 Moulton, Lincs, Hilda b1890 Bourne, Gerty b1893 Bourne, Richard b1895 Stoke Bardolph, Gladys May b1898 Carlton and Maud b1900 Carlton
Private Richard Henry Anderson, served with the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment, he died of wounds on 14th December 1915. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate.Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Death notice published 4th January 1916 in the Nottingham Evening Post :- “ANDERSON. – Died of wounds on December 14th, Private R. H. Anderson, 10th Sherwood Foresters, aged 21 years. – From his sorrowing father, mother, brothers, sisters, and Emma.” Above is courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town great War Hucknall 1914-1918
