Graham D'Arcy Anderson

Royal Marine Light Infantry

Registered at 26 Northumberland Place London with Maude in 1901 census ( he aged 40 ,she aged 24). He was I suspect asked to resign from the RM after Maude became pregnant. He was then sent to Africa to become District Commissioner in Sierra Leone. She died in UK from "Exhaustion". He lied about her parentage - stating that her father was Col Thomas Foote - even put this on the marriage cert and grave stone - DNA proved that this was not the case and he probably had an affair with her - she was a maid / servant in one of the officers houses. He returned to the UK when she died but otherwise remained in Africa and Shanghai where he stayed with his brother.

His OBIT : North China Herald 4th August 1931

Major Graham D’Arcy Anderson

His many friends in Shanghai have learned with much regret of the death which occurred at Salisbury, Rhodesia, on July 31st of Major Graham D’Arcy Anderson. The late Major Graham D’Arcy Anderson was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Anderson of the Seaforth Highlanders, and he was born at Moffat, Scotland in 1861. He was educated in Peebles Academy and in the United Services College, North Devon, where he was a contemporary of Mr Rudyard Kipling and he appeared as one of the principal characters in the latter’s tale, Stalky & Co. Passing through Sandhurst, he elected to join the Royal Marines Light Infantry and he was appointed to the Portsmouth Division in which he became instructor of gunnery. His first sea service was performed in HMS Hecate and HMS Hercules, a five-masted wooden sailing ship with an auxiliary collapsible screw which propelled her at four and a half knots. In this he assisted in arranging the Crofters’ dispute in the Hebrides. He was present in the bombardment of Alexandria in 1883. Resigning from the Navy in 1902, he was appointed administrator of a district of Sierra Leone hinterland where he saw a good deal of bush fighting, was able to abolish the Human Leopard Society in that part of the country, while he also served as one of the commissioners appointed to limit the Anglo-French boundary. Quitting the Colonial Service in 1911, he devoted his leisure to travel, Egypt, Australia and the South Sea Islands. In 1918, he came to Shanghai to visit his younger brother Mr Arthur Lefevre Anderson and resided at Happihouse until 1928, when he went to Rhodesia to live with his son.

Captain Graham D'Arcy Anderson to be Major, vice Langford, retired. Dated 27th August, 1898 (from London Gazette 2 sept 1898) Was a district Commissioner in Sierra Leone after retiring from RM Light Infantry

Died In Salisbury (Harare) Rhodesia aged 72 and 4 months. Normal Residence recorded as Queen's Hotel Salisbury. Arthur T D'A Anderson recorded as heir.