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His biography on the college website states: 'Laurence was born in Tokyo to William Anderson FRCS, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He is thought to have been educated at Westminster, and Christ Church. Laurence’s son, John Laurence was born in Bangkok in 1900 and censuses show him staying with his widowed maternal grandmother, Sophia Eleanor Mercer in 1901 at 8 Edith Rd, Hammersmith and in 1911 at 11 Grand Parade, St. Leonards on Sea. From this we assume that Sophia’s daughter Eleanor M V Mercer born in 1876 was Laurence Anderson’s wife.
There were two Territorial Battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment. A territorial battalion was one raised and largely financed by the local County Territorial Committee. The 4th, in which he served, was in existence in August 1914, recruited from the south of the County. He has no known grave but appears on the Loos Memorial, panel 31-34'