VC Action: Eric Anderson (15 September 1915–6 April 1943) was 27 years old, and a private in the 5th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment, British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 6 April 1943 on the Wadi Akarit, Tunisia, when a company of The East Yorkshire Regiment had to withdraw temporarily behind the crest of a hill, Private Anderson, a stretcher-bearer, went forward alone through heavy fire to rescue the wounded. Three times he brought in wounded comrades, and was rendering first aid to a fourth when he was mortally wounded.
Captain Eric Anderson’s body was recovered from the battlefield a week after the fighting. |
