Next of kin plaque : Sapper Neville Otho Cockburn Anderson, 3rd Field Company Engineers, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'NEVILLE OTHO COCKBURN ANDERSON'.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1892, Neville Otho Cockburn Anderson was employed as an engineering draughtsman when he enlisted in the AIF on 14 September 1914. He was appointed a sapper, service number 152, to the 1st Section of the 3rd Field Company Engineers. He embarked from Melbourne with his unit on 22 September, aboard HMAT A2 Geelong. In Egypt Anderson worked to build fortifications on the Suez Canal and was in a subsequent skirmish against the Turks in January 1915.

On Gallipoli Anderson was slightly wounded on 10 May but remained on the peninsula. Anderson was among a party of men detailed for fatigue duty on 24 July, carrying water from Anzac Beach to their unit. He was left behind to guard the remaining water cans until the evening when a further trip was to be made, but was hit in the head by a shrapnel fragment. He was treated by the 4th Field Ambulance and then taken to the 1st Casualty Clearing Station, where he died as the result of a depressed skull fracture later that day. He is buried in the Beach Cemetery at Gallipoli.

This commemorative plaque was sent to Anderson's widowed mother, Florence Emily Anderson, in July 1923. An elder brother, William Jones Anderson, served with the 5th Light Horse Regiment and survived the war.