Bruce Anderson

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Bruce Anderson (footballer, born 1907)

Bruce R. Anderson (20 February 1907 – 31 August 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Anderson, a local recruit from Ascot Vale, was a half back. He was used both on the flanks and at centre half-back. In the 1934 VFL season he acted as Essendon's vice captain. He represented Victoria at interstate football every year from 1933 to 1935. Anderson consistently polled votes in the Brownlow Medal and had his best showing in 1936 when he was Essendon's second best placed player.

He captain-coached Yarraville in 1938 and 1939.

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Bruce Anderson (Medal of Honor)

Bruce Anderson (June 19, 1845 – August 22, 1922) was an African American Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.

After working as a farmer in New York Anderson joined the military to fight in the Civil War and volunteered with a group of other soldiers to eliminate a palisade that was blocking the advance of his unit. After completing the mission and destroying the palasade, Anderson and twelve others were recommended for the Medal of Honor but the paperwork was lost. Anderson hired an attorney to get the Medal and he and two other soldiers received it in 1914.

Biography

Anderson was born June 19, 1845 in Mexico City but by the beginning of the Civil War was working as a farmer in New York. He enlisted for service in the military from Schenectady on August 31, 1864 as a private into Company K of the 142nd New York Infantry. Anderson has the unusual, but not unique, distinction of being an African American soldier who served in a white Civil War regiment.