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ANDERSON, Alexis Harry Victor
(Service number 62900)

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion — "Erected by the members in memory of their comrades who fell in the Great War 1914-1918” (Courtesy of K Close and P McAuliffe )

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion - plaque — The plaque above the building’s door reads: “Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion. Erected by the members in memory of their comrades who fell in the Great War 1914-1918”.
The building was opened on 22 October 1923. It still stands today (2019) in the Geraldine Domain. (Courtesy of K Close and P McAuliffe )

Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion plaque - restored in 2023 — (Courtesy of K Close )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	2 September 1888	Place of Birth	Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs H. Anderson (wife), 37 Rata Row, Lower Riccarton, Christchurch
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	32nd Reinforcements Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company
Date	21 November 1917
Transport	Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Liverpool, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Entrenching Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	31 October 1918	Age	30
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of disease
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Liege (Robermont) Cemetery, Liege, Belgium
Memorial Reference	28
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Ashburton War Memorial; Geraldine Hockey Club Memorial Pavilion plaque

Biographical Notes

Alexis Anderson was the son of Robert and L.S. Anderson, Greenstreet, Ashburton. Anderson was listed in New Zealand electoral rolls as a shepherd in Carew,,Ealing in 1911, then in Greenstreet (Selwyn) in 1914.

Anderson married Helen Ritchie in 1915. Miriam Hughes and Sally Cron (both nee Anderson) commented that Alexis' first born Thomas (b.1916) became a founder of sport medicine, the first gastroenterologist in NZ, and was the Olympic team doctor at Munich in 1972. Another son of Alexis, Victor, died of tetanus in 1933. In all four grandchildren,16 great grandchildren and, to date, [2015] 23 great great grandchildren resulted from Alexis and Helen Anderson's union.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (August 2013); SCroll web submission from M Hughes, 18 Apriil 2015; SCRoll web submission from S Cron, 5 July 2015

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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