The Lincolnshire Regiment

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Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Thomas Stephen James Anderson, the Lincolnshire Regiment, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Colonel Anderson assumed his appointment as Education Officer-in-Chief, Middle East Forces, on January 2nd, 1943. As a result of his enthusiasm, energy and devotion to duty he has achieved in this short space of time two notable results. He has imbued the whole of the Army Education Corps under his command with his own fire and zeal, and built around him a corps of educationists second to none in the British Army at home or abroad. And he has provided the army in the Middle East, including great contingents of Allied Forces, with facilities for education on a scale which would have been considered impossible a year ago. He has rendered exceptional service.

Colonel Anderson was born in Dublin.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7682314&queryType=1&resultcount =1

Name Anderson, Thomas Stephen James
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service No: 70631
Regiment: Lincolnshire Regiment
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Award: Order of the British Empire
Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 06 January 1944
Date 1943-1944
Catalogue reference WO 373/77

London Gazette:
4 January 1944
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36317/supplements/149

To be Additional Officers of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order: —
Colonel (temporary) Thomas Stephen James Anderson, (70631), The Lincolnshire Regiment (Lurgan, Co Armagh).

26 October 1945
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37326/supplements/5270

Lincoln R.
2nd Lt. (War Subs. Lt.-Col.) T. S. J. ANDERSON, O.B.E. (70631), to be Capt., 11th Apr. 1945.

See this thread for ref:
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/research-material/19413-volunteers-eire-who-have-won-distinctions.html#post195852