Background
Little is known of Anderson"s early life, other than that he was born in Finland, and entered the United States Army in Chicago, Illinois.
Little is known of Anderson"s early life, other than that he was born in Finland, and entered the United States Army in Chicago, Illinois.
On October 8, 1918, while fighting near Consenvoye, France, while his unit was pinned down by heavy German machine gun fire, First Sergeant Anderson volunteered to leave his unit in an attempt at flanking the enemy machine gun emplacement. He made his advance under heavy fire, over open ground, reaching the emplacement and killing the machine gun crew. He silenced the machine gun, captured it, and returned with twenty three German prisoners of war.
He died April 15, 1950 and is buried in Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum Chicago, Illinois.
His grave can be found in Poplar Section, Lot North-East 25, Block 1, Grave 2.