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Sir Charles Alexander Anderson, (10 February 1857 – 20 February 1940) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Military career

Anderson was commissioned into the

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in 1876.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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in 1878 and the Burma expedition in 1885. He went to the North West Frontier in

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in 1897. After the outbreak of the

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saw several senior officers posted to South Africa, Anderson was on 3 March 1900 temporary appointed assistant adjutant-general at head quarters Punjab Command. He was appointed assistant adjutant-general at

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in June 1900, while still officiating in the Punjab, but never actually took up this position as he was appointed permanently to the job at Punjab head quarters on 20 May 1901, while also promoted to the substantive rank of

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. He was awarded the Albert Medal for an event at

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on 30 August 1906 when a fire broke out in one of the Magazines of the Ferozepore Arsenal. The citation reads: He was appointed

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of 1st Brigade for the Bazaar Valley expedition in 1908, and went on to be Commander of the Mohmand Field Force later that year. He was appointed Commander of British Troops in South China in 1910. He served in the

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the Southern Army in

from 1917. He retired in 1920. In 1921, he was conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the emperor of Japan.''

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(Supplement) no. 32428. p. 6569
19 August 1921. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

Family

In 1893 he married Ellen Katherine Russell: they went on to have two sons.

References

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