Son of James and Annie Anderson of Mains of Craighall, Kennethmont
James d 27/4/1924 age 62, Annie McIntosh d 5/6/1935 age 70, interred at Auchindoir (new).
Robert detailed on headstone

Born Lumsden, enlisted Aberdeen, killed in action, served France & Flanders.
Private 1GH, Mains of Craighall

Robert Disney Anderson b Lumsden 5/5/1894

PRO; War & Victory Medals

KIA - Army Return

The letter S prefixing the service number indicates a wartime enlistment.

Robert was killed in the Arras Sector and has no known grave.
On 17 June his battalion was attacking Hill 100, also named Infantry Hill, east of Monchy-le-Preux.

1st GH, Batt diary entry June 1917
12th, In the line
13th, Bn relieved 1st RSF in Hill trench East of Monchy.
14th-19th, Bn attacked at 7.20 am took trench and established posts on the mound and high ground. Very heavy fighting from counter attacks. Successful operation; but heavy losses. 70 killed, 160 wounded, 27 missing.
20th, Bn relieved and embussed for Grenas, good billets.

Service notes
1st Gordon Highlanders

4/8/1914 at Plymouth: 8th Bde, 3rd Division
14/8/1914 landed Boulogne.
12/9/1914 to Line of Communications Troops after losing 80% at Le Cateau (the order to withdraw never reached them or others of 8th Bde. 500 Gordons were captured)
30/9/1914 remnants reinforced & returned to 8th Bde, 3rd Division
19/10/1915 to 76th Brigade, 3rd Division.
11/11/1918 La Longueville, France.

ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France

Bay 8 and 9

The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station. The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, with the exception of casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister, 25 feet high and 380 feet long, built up on Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels fixed to the cloister walls.

The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, excluding casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister built upon Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse in front of which is the Arras Flying Services Memorial. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels which are fixed to the cloister walls.