The Pilot Officer Edwin Graham Milton Anderson Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.
Edwin Anderson, the first Mount Royal student to be killed in action during the Second World War, was born in 1920 and attended Mount Royal in 1940, when he was elected president of the High School class. The Chinook Yearbook called him “a modest and shy student” and remarked he was “a loyal enthusiast of the air force after the Christmas Exams.” Upon leaving Mount Royal, Anderson enlisted as a Pilot Officer in the 102 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force and was killed on September 1, 1941. Anderson went missing piloting a Whitley bomber, which was later found to have been shot down over Molenbeersel, Limburg, Belgium.
