RARE! "Lieutenant General" Sir Charles Anderson Hand Written Letter Mueller COA

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Up for auction a RARE! "Lieutenant General" Sir Charles Alexander Anderson Hand Written Letter dated 1934.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Lieutenant General
Sir Charles Alexander Anderson
,
KCB
,
KCIE
,
AM
(10 February 1857 – 20 February 1940) was
Commander of British Troops in South China
. Anderson was
commissioned
into the
Royal Horse Artillery
in 1876.He took part in the Jowaki-Afridi expedition 1877, the
Second Anglo-Afghan War
in 1878 and the Burma expedition in 1885.
[1]
He went to the
North West Frontier
in
India
in 1897.He was awarded the
Albert Medal
for an event at
Ferozepore
on 30 August 1906 when a fire broke out in one of the Magazines of the Ferozepore Arsenal. The citation reads:
Major-General Anderson, who directed the subsequent operations from the roof at the edge of the Magazine Compound, at a distance of some 20 yards, having ordered all persons to be cleared out of the fort, and placed a cordon round it at 1,000 yards distance, a steam fire engine was got to work, and the fire party which had been organised commenced their highly dangerous task of clearing cell No. 8 in which was stored some 19,000 lbs of gunpowder; they eventually succeeded in so doing, thereby cutting off the fire by the intervention of an empty cell. Had the powder in this cell exploded, the explosion must have been communicated to cells in an adjoining magazine, where 300,000 lbs of gunpowder were stored.He was appointed
Commander
of 1st Brigade for the Bazaar Valley expedition in 1908,
[1]
and went on to be Commander of the Mohmand Field Force later that year. He was appointed
Commander of British Troops in South China
in 1910.He served in the
First World War
as
General Officer Commanding
the
Southern Army
in
India
from 1917. He retired in 1920. In 1921, he was conferred the
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
by the emperor of Japan.