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Richard Henry Anderson

Private

Service No. 20541

Age 21

Died on 14 December 1915

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of James and Emma Anderson, of Flintham, Newark, Notts.

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The Flintham Society and Museum

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Nick McDonald

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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Henry Harrison

Richard, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Poppy Snozcat

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

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The Flintham Society and Museum

Flintham Museum’s project 'Keeping the Home Fires Burning?' is commemorating all the men from Flintham who fought and died.

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Richard was the son of James Wright Anderson and Eliza Emma Anderson (nee Cremer) and born in Stoke Bardolph, Notts in 1894.  He was one of...

The Flintham Society and Museum

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Richard, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalio...

Henry Harrison

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