Military Career
He commissioned into the 9th Lancers and then also saw service in 13th Light Dragoons.
In 1860 the Fifeshire Mounted Rifle Volunteers were re-raised and the then Captain Anstruther Thomson joined on leaving the Regular Army.
In 1866 he took over command from the late Earl of Rosslyn of the same Regiment his father had commanded some half a century before. After his command he gained the rank of Honorary Colonel of the Fife and Forfar Imperial Yeomanry.
He was decorated with the award of Volunteer Decoration (VD).
He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Fife and the office of Justice of the Peace in Fife.
During his life he lived at Carntyne, Lanarkshire, Scotland and Charleton, Fife, Scotland.
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