Alekhine died. Voctionally, he became an accountant and later joined the Foreign Office, serving in the British Embassies in Lisbon, Teheran and Washington. On 25 June 1932 he was appointed as a liquidator of Parkhill Publicity Limited. On 18 December 1953, he was appointed an Officer in Her Majesty's Foreign Service. One of his diplomatic posts was Washington, D.C. On 1 January 1959, while serving as Second Secretary of Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington, D.C., Gerald Frank Anderson was inducted into the Order of the British Empire. On 5 April 1971, Anderson's wife Lilian Madge died in Rapallo, Italy. Anderson died in Hove, England, on 23 August 1983. End notes References Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , . External links A list of Anderson's aerial victories 1898 births 1984 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) South African people of British descent White South African people South African World War I flying aces People from Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal