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Sir Warren Hastings Anderson (9 January 1872 – 11 December 1930) was

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Military career

Anderson was born the first son of General David Anderson, Colonel-in-Chief of the Cheshire Regiment, and his wife, Charlotte Christina (''née'' Anderson). Educated at Marlborough College and the

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,Hastings Anderson at ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
/ref> Anderson was commissioned into the

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as a second lieutenant on 8 October 1890,Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> and promoted to

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on 9 January 1894.Hart′s Army list, 1903. BEF commanders and chiefs of staff 1918

He was promoted to captain on 18 December 1899, as he left for

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and the

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. Serving first in a staff position in 1900 as

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on the staff of the military governor in

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, he returned to his regiment to become adjutant of the 2nd battalion on 21 April 1901. The battalion served in South Africa throughout the war, which ended in June 1902. Anderson returned home with other officers and men of the battalion on the SS ''St. Andrew'' leaving

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in early October 1902, and was subsequently stationed at

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. He also took part in

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, joining the British Expeditionary Force and serving with the

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, then with the 11th Army Corps, then with the 15th Army Corps and finally with the

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. He was, effectively Chief of Staff of the 1st Army and it was his task to prepare for the assault on Vimy Ridge in 1917. After the war he became

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at the Staff College in Camberley until 1922 when he moved to army headquarters in

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. He was appointed General Officer Commanding Baluchistan District in 1924 and

in 1927. He was

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of the

from 1928 to 1930. He died on 11 December 1930.Burkes Landed Gentry: Anderson of Northfield

Family

Anderson was the older brother of Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson and married Eileen Hamilton in 1910; they had no children.

References

Bibliography

* ''Outline of the development of the British Army: Up to the commencement of the Great War, 1914'' Notes for four lectures delivered at the Staff College by Lieutenant General Sir Hastings Anderson , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Hastings 1872 births 1930 deaths Military personnel from Aldershot British Army lieutenant generals Cheshire Regiment officers Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Marlborough College British Army generals of World War I British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Commandants of the Staff College, Camberley Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Military personnel from Surrey