[3] Anderson served for the full duration of the war and received the Military Medal in 1916 for gallantry while on a reconnaissance patrol.

[4] Anderson lived in Edmonton until his death;[5] dying on 3 April 1960 at the age of seventy-nine and was buried in Westlawn Cemetery.

"[4] Anderson showed an early interest in poetry; although his formal education ended at Grade 4, he was already composing poems in his late teens.

[6] Anderson's poetry collection Troopers in France (1932) was described at "filled with thoughtful and sometimes bitter poems about the tragedy of war.

These were the first actual books of poetry to be published in Alberta and are of a more northern sensibility in comparison to other contemporary western writers like Rhoda Sivell and Robert J.C.