ANDERSON, Donald James Carey
| Service Number: | 1040 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1914, An original member of C Company 2nd Bn |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 14 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Zeehan, West Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | The Hutchins School, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 17 August 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1040, 2nd Infantry Battalion, An original member of C Company 2nd Bn | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 1040, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 1040, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
His brother Lieutenant Keneth Henry Anderson of the 15 Battalion AIF was Killed in Action on 9 May 1915
Sons of Rev H A Anderson, The Rectory, Stanley, Tasmania
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Donald James Carey Anderson, was one of four sons of the Rev. Henry Hudson and Catherine Anderson of Stanley, Tasmania. He was 23 years of age, and enlisted in New South Wales in the beginning of the war in the 2nd Battalion AIF. He saw service for 5 months in Gallipoli from which place he was invalided to England with rheumatism, and after 4 months returned to Egypt.
He was killed in action at Pozieres, with the Red Cross reports indicating he was buried by a shell, was dug out concussed but could not be resuscitated. His brother Lieut. Kenneth Anderson, was killed at Quinn's Post in Gallipoli; another brother Herbert George Anderson served with the Engineers in France whilst a fourth brother, Allan Francis Strangeway Anderson, gave up a position as an assayer in Penang, Asia, returned to Australia, and enlisted with the 4th Machine Gun Company.
Their father, Henry Hudson Anderson, was for many years headmaster of Hutchins School in Hobart, Tasmania.