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Lieutenant Colonel Peter Anderson was born on the Island of Funen, Denmark on april 24th, 1868. He emigrated to Canada in 1888, eventually establishing a brickworks in Strathcona (Edmonton). He enlisted with the 101st Regiment of the Edmonton Fusiliers in 1914, attending the Royal Military School at Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg, and going on to train at Valcariter Camp in Quebec. His troop sailed for England in October 1914, and he was shipped to France on the 7th of February, 1915. Anderson was taken prisoner at 2nd Ypres, and made a prisioner of war at the Bischofswerda Camp, Saxony, Germany. He escaped from this camp at the end of September 1915, eventually making his way to England and his escape was celebrated with Anderson beign received by the King and presented to Queen Alexandra. He returned to Edmonton on December 13th, 1919 and died in Vancouver, B.C in 1945. Peter Anderson wrote about his early life, and prison escape in a book titled: "I That's Me".
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