| Regimental number | 3016 |
| Place of birth | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Salesman |
| Address | Ballarat, Victoria |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 31 |
| Height | 5' 11.5" |
| Weight | 180 lbs |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Elizabeth F Anderson, 2 Fawkner Street, South Yarra, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Served in the Cadets, 60th Infantry, for 3 years. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Place of enlistment | Ballarat, Victoria |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 39th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/56/3 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 39th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 23 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 130 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: William and Winnifred ANDERSON; Wife: Elizabeth Francis ANDERSON, 'Boondara', Croydon, Victoria |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Melbourne, 19 February 1917; disembarked Devonport, England, 25 April 1917. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 11 June 1917 (not yet diagnosed); discharged, 14 June 1917, and marched into 10th Training Bn. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 15 June 1917 (hay fever); rejoined 10th Training Bn, 19 June 1917. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 23 July 1917 (bronchitis); discharged to duty, 30 July 1917; rejoined 10th Training Bn, 8 August 1917. Attended a course of instruction in the Lewis Gun, 31 August-14 September 1917: passed 1st Class. Proceeded overseas to France, 25 September 1917; taken on strength, 39th Bn, 8 October 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 12 October 1917. Buried at Hamburg, Zonnebeke; grave subsequently lost. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, ANDERSON Walter Newton |
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