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Date(s)
- 1877-1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box
Scope and content
Letters home, reports, official correspondence and related papers concerning Anderson’s military career, including: letters home, 1877-1885, relating to the operations of the Jowaki-Afridi expedition on the North West Frontier, India, 1877-1885; letters relating to his service with the Peshawar Valley Field Force, Afghanistan, 1878-1880, with accounts of the Battle of Ali Musjid (Ali Masjid), Nov 1878, the Battle of Fatehabad (Futtehabad), Apr 1879, the Battle of Jegdalek, Oct 1879, looting by British forces, deaths due to pneumonia, typhoid and cholera, the siege of the Sherpur Cantonment, Dec 1879, and British advances in the Laghman region, eastern Afghanistan, 1880; a letter home, 1885, relating to the surrender of Burma; report, correspondence and photographs relating to an explosion in the ordnance depot at Ferozepore, India (Firozpur, Pakistan), 1906. Also correspondence and related papers concerning Anderson’s military appointments and his retirement, 1920.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1857; joined Army, 1876; promoted to Captain, 1884; Major, 1893; Lieutenant Colonel, 1901; served with the Jowaki-Afridi Expedition, North West Frontier, India, 1877-1878; Afghan War, 1878-1880; Burma Expedition, 1885-1886; North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; commanded 1 Brigade, Bazar Valley expedition, North West Frontier, India, 1908; commanded 1 Brigade Mohmand Field Force, India, 1908; General Officer Commanding South China, 1910-1913; World War One, 1914-1917; commanded Southern Army, India, 1917-1919; retired 1920; died 1940.
Repository
Archival history
Placed in the Centre by the family, 2013.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.