[1] Both Nimrod Greenwood and Edward Pain, who were in the Australian eight at the 1952 Summer Olympics with Anderson, also attended Sydney High.

The New South Wales crew were national champions in 1950 and 1951 and were selected in toto as the Olympic representative eight for 1952.

[3] In 1952, he was in the four seat of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event at the Helsinki Olympics.

[2] In the interim, for the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver as was customary, that year's winning King's Cup eight - Victoria - were invited to represent as the Australian crew.

[2] Anderson is the father of Wendy Laidlaw, who competed in the Australian women's basketball team at the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles.