Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major D. W. R. Anderson, 1st (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, late 2/7th Battalion London Regiment

1914-15 Star (2-Lieut. D. W. R. Anderson. 1/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. W. R. Anderson); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, 1914-1916, bronze, with bronze star on ribbon, good very fine (6) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Paul Bentley Collection.

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David William Rennie Anderson was born in Islington on 2 January 1895, and was educated at the Higher Grade School, Wood Green. He was a Shipping Clerk by occupation. On 11 May 1915 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st City of London Battalion London Regiment from Lance-Corporal in the 2nd/7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment. To France, 2 November 1915. Briefly in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 5 April 1917. Assistant Commandant and Adjutant of a Concentration Camp from 5 April 1919, relinquished the temporary rank of Major on ceasing to be employed as Commandant of a Concentration Camp on 26 January 1920. Address on m.i.c. ‘Berea, 97 Muswell Avenue, Muswell Hill, N10’. Moved to Nova Scotia, Canada appearing on the 1935 Silver Jubilee Medal roll as ‘Anderson, Major David, Springhill, NS’. He travelled to and from the U.K. and Canada up to the mid 1950’s, address given in the U.K. as ‘234B Station Road, Edgware, Middlesex’.

Sold with some copied research; neither Croix de Guerre confirmed.