Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Captain. A. D. Anderson. R.A.) mounted from contemporary wearing pin, minor edge nicks, good very fine £140-£180

Alexander Dingwall Anderson was born in Burdman, India, on 19 March 1843. He was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal (Bengal) Artillery 8 June 1860 and advanced Captain 9 May 1874. Transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery, he married Grace Hunter-Hailes, daughter of Captain Martin Hunter-Hailes of the 10th Bengal Cavalry, at Cheltenham in April 1875, before returning to India and witnessing active service in the Afghan War of 1878-80. Raised Major General 23 April 1896, Anderson took his retirement at Calcutta 20 July 1897 and left India on 23 May 1909. He later lived with his wife at ‘Greencroft’, Farnborough, and died on 13 March 1916 at Weston Park in Bath as a result of heart failure following a particularly severe bout of influenza.

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