{"id":8755,"date":"2026-11-07T15:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2026-11-07T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T15:09:17","slug":"anderson-s-pte-997-2nd-australain-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/anderson-s-pte-997-2nd-australain-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson S Pte 997 2nd Australain Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8756\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8756\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8756\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-825x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-768x953.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-1237x1536.jpg 1237w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry-1650x2048.jpg 1650w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Anderson-S-Pte-997-2nd-Australain-Infantry.jpg 1856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson S Pte 997 2nd Australain Infantry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ANDERSON, SAMUEL, Private, No. 997, 2nd Battn., Australian 1st Infantry Brigade, only s. of Charles Anderson, of Eastwick, Ollaberry, North Mavine, Shetland, R.N.R., by his wife, Christina, dau. of George Clark Sharp, of Ollaberry; b. Ollaberry, Shetland, 14 Nov. 1890; educ. Public School there; was a few months in the Merchant Service, and went to Australia in 1910, and was working on a farm until the out-break of war. He enlisted, went with the 1st Australian Contingent to Cairo, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 April, 1915; unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : Shetland Roll Of Honour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSON, SAMUEL, Private, No. 997, 2nd Battn., Australian 1st Infantry Brigade, only s. of Charles Anderson, of Eastwick, Ollaberry, North Mavine, Shetland, R.N.R., by his wife, Christina, dau. of George Clark Sharp, of Ollaberry; b. Ollaberry, Shetland, 14 Nov. 1890; educ. Public School there; was a few months in the Merchant Service, and went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-imperial-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}