Arthur Anderson (athlete)
Arthur Emilius David Anderson, (30 September 1886 – 21 October 1967) was a British Army officer and an English Track and field, track and field athlete from Brentford, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Early life and Olympian Anderson was born in Twickenham, a village and a parish in Brentford district, Middlesex county in Greater London, England.ANDERSON, GERARD RUPERT LAURIE
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His parents were David Anderson (b. 1844), an Anglican prebendary, and Blanch Alice May Anderson (b. 1857). He also had a sister, Mona Constance Anabel (b. 1884), and a brother, Gerard Anderson, Gerrard Rupert Laurie (b. 1889) In 1912, Anderson was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, 100 metres competition as well as of ...
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ...
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