Frederick William Anderson (geologist)

[2] He was born on 13 January 1905 in Leeds in England, the son of William Stewart Anderson and his wife, Alice Ann Hodgson.

As a member of the Territorial Army,[3] Anderson was instantly brought into service at the outbreak of the Second World War and joined the Royal Hampshire Regiment.

Termed a “military geologist” he worked alongside Frederick William Shotton and John Victor Stephens.

His proposers were Talbot Whitehead, Murray Macgregor, Arthur Holmes, David Haldane and James Ernest Richey.

[5] He returned to the British Geological Survey after the war, working with people such as James Ernest Richey and Victor Eyles.