Charles Alexander Anderson


Sir Charles Alexander Anderson, was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Military career

Anderson was commissioned into the Royal Horse Artillery in 1876.
He took part in the Jowaki-Afridi expedition 1877, the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878 and the Burma expedition in 1885. He went to the North West Frontier in India in 1897.
He was awarded the Albert Medal for an event at Ferozepore on 30 August 1906 when a fire broke out in one of the Magazines of the Ferozepore Arsenal. The citation reads:
He was appointed Commander of 1st Brigade for the Bazaar Valley expedition in 1908, and went on to be Commander of the Mohmand Field Force later that year. He was appointed Commander of British Troops in South China in 1910.
He served in the First World War as General Officer Commanding the Southern Army in India from 1917. He retired in 1920.
In 1921, he was conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the emperor of Japan.

Family

In 1893 he married Ellen Katherine Russell: they went on to have two sons.