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Austin Thomas Anderson
1868–1949
A soldier, memoirist, and military historian, he turned frontline experience into a detailed record of artillery service in the First World War. His life also crossed military and literary circles through his marriage to the Australian writer Ethel Anderson.
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War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery
by Austin Thomas Anderson
About the author
Born on August 28, 1868, in Mauritius, Austin Thomas Anderson served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He is best remembered in book collections as the author of War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery, a firsthand military history drawn from his World War I service.
Anderson’s career took him through India, Queensland, and the Western Front, and later into public service in Australia. Reference sources also connect him with New South Wales vice-regal service after the war, showing a life that moved between empire, war, and administration.
He died in 1949. Although not a literary figure in the usual sense, his writing preserves the voice of a senior officer who wanted to document how a fighting unit worked, endured, and remembered its war.