Ken Anderson (politician)

Sir Kenneth McColl Anderson KBE (11 October 1909 – 29 March 1985) was an Australian politician, soldier and businessman.

His father, a Scottish-born auctioneer and building contractor, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920.

He worked as an insurance clerk, auctioneer, estate agent and property valuer in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood.

He served in the second Australian Imperial Force during World War II as a lieutenant in the 8th Signals Division in Malaya and was held by the Japanese as a prisoner of war in for three years at Changi Prison and on the Burma Railway.

He suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his final years and died at a nursing home in Lane Cove on 29 March 1985, aged 75.

Anderson in 1962.