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Major Guy Michael Craigie ANDERSON (62635)
2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment Date of birth: 28th September 1913 Date of death: 30th January 1944 Killed in action aged 30 Buried at Minturno War Cemetery Plot III Row K Grave 12
Guy Michael Craigie Anderson was born at Richmond in Surrey on the 28th of September 1913 the son of Colonel Charles Stephen Nelson Anderson, a broker, and Winifred Helen Anderson (nee Craigie) of Karachi. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1927 to July 1931 when he went on to the Alpine College. He went on to the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1932 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment on the 1st of February 1934. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of February 1937. He was married in London on the 3rd of February 1939 to Rosemary Millicent (nee Howard-Sneyd) who, following his death, was remarried to Michael Frederick Lilly on the 17th of August 1946. He served in France, at Dunkirk, and at Madagascar where he was wounded when he was serving as part of British Force 121 during Operation “Ironclad”, the amphibious invasion of the Vichy French Colony. He was promoted to Acting Captain on the 25th of January 1940, a rank he relinquished on the 24th of April and was promoted to temporary Captain the following day. He was promoted to Captain on the 1st of February 1942 and to temporary Major on the 5th of July 1943. On the 28th of January 1944 he joined the 2nd Battalion of his regiment at the Garigliano area, north of the river. Two days later they were involved in an attack on Monte Natale to the north of Minturno Ridge as part of an operation to force the Germans away from positions overlooking the Garigliano crossings during which he was killed. He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

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