Hastings Anderson

Lieutenant General Sir Warren Hastings Anderson, KCB (9 January 1872 – 11 December 1930) was a senior British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1927 to 1930.

[5] Anderson was promoted to captain on 18 December 1899,[6] as he left for South Africa and the Second Boer War.

Anderson returned home with other officers and men of the battalion on the SS St. Andrew leaving Cape Town in early October 1902, and was subsequently stationed at Aldershot.

[9] As MGGS he was, effectively, chief of staff of the First Army, commanded by General Sir Henry Horne throughout Anderson's service with it, and it was his task to prepare for the assault on Vimy Ridge in April 1917.

[10] After the war, Anderson became commandant at the Staff College in Camberley until 1922 when he moved to army headquarters in India.

King George V talking to General Sir Henry Horne, whilst visiting the First Army area, 11 July 1917. Stood behind Horne is his MGGS, Hastings Anderson.
Sir Douglas Haig with his army commanders and their chiefs of staff, November 1918. Front row, left to right: Sir Herbert Plumer , Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Henry Rawlinson . Middle row, left to right: Sir Julian Byng , Sir William Birdwood , Sir Henry Horne . Back row, left to right: Sir Herbert Lawrence , Sir Charles Kavanagh , Brudenell White , Percy, Louis Vaughan , Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd , Hastings Anderson.