Donald Clive Anderson

Captain Donald Clive Anderson (18 April 1897 – 2 January 1957)[1] was an English military consultant and historian.

In early 1918 a company was detached from the regiment and sent to Palestine to form part of a new unit, the 2nd battalion, 154th Indian Infantry.

An early skier, Anderson spent the winter of 1920–21 in Switzerland in Mürren, the town where the famous Kandahar ski club was set up in 1924.

While in Australia, Anderson visited Il Parran, Glenn Innes (1923), Hobart (August 1924), visiting Amy Gant, Anderson's mother's first cousin wife of Tetley Gant, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.

Anderson was the military consultant[5] for the 1939 film The Four Feathers directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez and C. Aubrey Smith.

During World War II, Anderson worked for the Ministry of Information using experience gained in the making of the Four Feathers.

Patrick died in an aeroplane crash while in the Royal Flying Corps on 19 October 1917, aged 18; he was based at Waddington, Turnhouse and Midlothian.

From Malcolm Uren , editor of The Western Mail , Perth, WA , To Donald Anderson, Australian Specialist, Ministry of Information, 1944.
Captain Donald Clive Anderson with the last stand of the 2nd 154th Indian Infantry, raised 26 May 1918, disbanded 1921. Lt Gilbert, Captin Glass MC, Sub Major Hargian, Lt Eldred, Lt Col A Boxwell CIE, Captin HE Morris, Hardial, Kale Khan, Lt Shikari Banadur IDSM, Lt Shikari Bahanur IDSM, Lt Woodford, Sub Ladnu Ram, Captin Sale.
Donald Clive Anderson skiing with Wellie Vaughan, Jim Wild, Xine, Soko in Murren, Switzerland Winter 1920–1921
A painting depicting members of the Rajputanta Rifles, of all ranks and uniforms. circa. 1911
A scan of D. C. Anderson's obituary from The Times