Born on 10 March 1886, the son of Alfred Jasper Anderson MRCS, Medical Officer of Health for Blackpool, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1911, was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service in January 1912, and saw active service throughout the first world war, in France 1914-15, in Iraq 1916-18, and finally in Egypt. He was promoted Captain 1915, won the Military Cross 1917, and was mentioned in dispatches 1915 and 1919. He took the Fellowship in 1922, was promoted Major in 1923 and served as a civil surgeon in Madras 1913-28. He was professor of surgery and principal of Andhra Medical College, Vizagapatam 1928-34, and professor of surgery at Calcutta Medical College 1934-45. He was an excellent clinical teacher and a bold, wise surgeon, with a brusque, downright manner. He was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1939. After retiring from the Service in 1945 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel he practised privately in Calcutta, where he died on 28 November 1957 aged 61. He was unmarried, and had been a successful race-horse owner.