John Anderson - Military

Military

  • John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), educator, railroad contractor and United States Army officer
  • John F. Anderson (1832–1902), brigadier general during the American Civil War
  • John W. Anderson (1899–1976), Master Mariner and Commodore, United States Lines, Captain, SS United States
  • John Anderson (British Army officer) (1908–1988), first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment
  • John Thompson McKellar Anderson (1918–1943), English Victoria Cross recipient
  • John Rogers Anderson (born 1941), Canadian admiral and ambassador to NATO

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