In Memory Of

ANDERSON, DERMOD GREEN

Service Details
Age:
 29
Date of Birth:
 1914-11-04
Service No:
 123868
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Regiment:
 The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.
Date of Death:
 1944-09-25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Operation Market Garden, at Arnhem. On 18 September 1944, the second day of Operation Market Garden, No. 4 Flight, in which Lieutenant Anderson was a section commander, took off from RAF Manston. They reached their landing zone outside of Arnhem at around 1500 hours. The glider pilots of Nos. 3 and 4 Flights headed towards the town of Oosterbeek. They took up positions covering the guns of 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Royal Artillery. They remained in action around Oosterbeek embroiled in heavy fighting until 25 September when the evacuation order was given. On the morning of 25 September 1944, Lieutenant Anderson was positioned in a trench close to the Ter Horst vicarage. The enemy attacked in force and Lieutenant Anderson was killed when an enemy shell exploded close to his trench just three hours before the evacuation order was given.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 8.
Cemetery:
 ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Gelderland
Country:
 Netherlands
Additional Information
Son of John Jarrold and Mary Pinkerton Anderson; husband of Caroline Ann Anderson, of Oxhey, Watford, Hertfordshire. Born South Africa. He grew up in South Africa and was educated at the Bishop?s Diocesan College in Rondebosch, before studying at the University of Cape Town and the University of Liverpool. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was employed as an assistant to the Architect Edwin Lutyens. On 17 February 1940 he married Caroline Ann Cooke. Dermod was commissioned into The Gloucestershire Regiment on 15 March 1940. After training he was posted to 41 Traffic Control Company before on 19 December 1940, being posted to 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment. He returned to traffic control work in 1941 and was promoted to lieutenant on 15 September that year. On 9 April 1942, Lieutenant Anderson joined 1st Battalion The Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps at Tilshead in Wiltshire and on 10 June 1942 began flying training. On completion of his training, he was posted to 2nd Battalion The Glider Pilot Regiment. On 12 February 1944, he joined B Squadron 1st Wing and first saw action on 6 June 1944 when it took part in D-Day operations. Originally commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial. Recently recovered from a garden next to the Der Horst house. The services for Private Henry Moon of Filey, North Yorkshire, and Lieutenant Dermod Anderson who was born in South Africa, were organised by the MOD?s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), The services were held at the CWGC Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery in The Netherlands on Wednesday 18 September 2024. Commemorative headstone in Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery.