CASUALTY MUDDLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 17, 23 December 1915, Page 7

CASUALTY MUDDLES.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ANDER-

SON?

(From Sydney Daily Telegraph)

The "corrigenda" pages of to-day's casualty list are interesting. In five earlier lists there appear to have" been made five separate attempts to record what happened to one man, whose name has been given variously as A. C. Anderson and A. V. Anderson, whose regimental number has been stated as 2116 and 2110, and the place of residence of whose relatives has been assigned to South Hay, Leichhardt, and Lilyfield. In the 71st list A. C. Anderson was reported wounded ami dangerously ill. In. the 74th he was recorded as having died of wounds, and the date of that sad event was given. Next list mentioned that "A. V. Anderson had been killed in action, but the fourth list later denied this, and said he was only wounded. Followed two lists without any reference to Anderson, and then came another which said he was not dead and was not wounded, but was ill and in hospital, in London. After that, for the space of time that may be measured by the issue of 42 further casualty lists there was silence concerning the fate of Anderson, whose relatives doubtless settled down to some sort of fixed state of mind concerning him. Now we learn, that it was all wrong. Private A. 0. Anderson was not wounded and dangerously ill, nor did he die of wounds, and Private A. V. Anderson was neither killed in action I nor wounded, and he'was not ill in a iLondon hospital when so reported. What happened to Anderson is still a mystery. But according to the latest revelation there is reason to hope for the best.