Rank/Rate	Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Service Number	O-120159
Birth Date	May 13, 1917
From	Ridgewood, New Jersey
Decorations	Purple Heart
Submarine	USS Runner (SS-275)
Loss Date	July 11, 1943
Location	North of Hokkaido, Japan
Circumstances	Probably sunk by a mine
Remarks	Lawrence was born in Albany, New York.  He was a 1939 Yale graduate and was attending Yale Law School when called up in the Naval Reserve.  He was a classmate of Richard Harold Seligman, also lost on USS Runner, and Gordon Phillips Hoover, lost on USS Cisco.

Photo (l) and information courtesy of Chris Stout; photo (r) and additional information courtesy of Mr. (nephew) and Mrs. Lawrence DeForest Anderson.

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