Walter Anderson

Anderson and Mitchell would be nominated for the Victoria Cross, but supporting documentation was lost during the evacuation from Russia. On another mission in Russia, Anderson and another observer, Captain George G. MacLennan of Owen Sound, Ontario, shot down an observation balloon and then bombed a Bolshevik airfield at Tcherni-Yar. During the engagement, MacLennan was mortally wounded by anti-aircraft fire and bled to death before the plane could land.

Later life and death Walter Anderson left the RAF in 1927 and became a commercial pilot for British Airways Ltd. He died in a crash at Gatwick Airport, London, on 15 September 1936. The crash of the de Havilland D.H.86A was suspected to be caused by the radio operator getting his foot caught between the fire extinguisher and the second rudder bar.

He was buried at St Nicholas' Church, Worth in West Sussex.

Personal life

He married Phyllis Mary Joseph of Zeitorin, Cairo on 2 February 1922 at the British Consulate and later at the All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo. They had two sons, John Fraser Anderson and Maurice Fraser Anderson. They both came to Canada after his death. He petitioned for divorce in 1934. In 1936 he remarried, Vivian ?. He died not long after.