August 4 1916: Another casualty of war reported

By Kirsty McIntosh

August 4 2016, 5:30am

August 4 2016, 5:30am

If the bombs and bullets didn’t kill the soldiers, then illness and infection could.

A year and a half after leaving his home in Angus to work in London, Archibald Anderson was died after being injured.

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