GUNNER JAMES ANDERSON
AUSTRALIAN FIELD ARTILLERY
17TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 24
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
James Anderson was a farmer from the small community of Coominya in Queensland, which even today has scarcely more than 1,000 residents. He enlisted on 9 September 1915 and embarked for Europe on 11 May 1916. He died of shrapnel wounds to his left leg in No 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Lijssenthoek, Belgium.