Joseph William ANDERSON

Badge Number: X1730, Sub Branch: Echunga
X1730

ANDERSON, Joseph William

Service Number: 1793
Enlisted: 15 May 1916, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 53rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Echunga, South Australia, 6 January 1898
Home Town: Echunga, Mount Barker, South Australia
Schooling: Echunga School, South Australia, Australia
Occupation: Labourer
Died: 9 December 1976, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Echunga St. Mary's Anglican Church Cemetery
Memorials: Echunga War Memorial, South Australian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 1 Service

15 May 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1793, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA
12 Aug 1916: Involvement Private, 1793, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
12 Aug 1916: Embarked Private, 1793, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Private, 1793, 53rd Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Wounded 1793, 43rd Infantry Battalion

Joseph William Anderson

Joseph Anderson was my father-in-law. He grew up on the family farm in Echunga, and went to school there also. After the war Joe spent time and worked in the area around Robe where he met and later married Myrtle (Potter). They settled back in Echunga on the family farm where they raised one daughter and three sons, (one child only surviving three months).
Joe was wounded in WWI and by the time I knew him he was a TPI pensioner. now living in the Echunga Township.
Joe later married Ivy (Slater)

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Mrs Alice Gertrude Anderson, Echunga, SA