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Pte. Alfred Rowland Matthews
British Army 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:15 Gratton Street, Cheltenham, Glos
(d.25th September 1915)
Alfred Matthews was born on 16th August 1893 to Frederick and Clara Matthews, at 12 Normal Terrace, Cheltenham. Alfred joined in the Gordon Boys Brigade in Cheltenham as a lad, with a push from his mother I believe. His brother were also in the Brigade, and I think they delivered messages around the town.
He married Edith Isabel Turner on 26th December 1914 and went to France the following year. He was killed in action, on 25th of September 1915 at the Battle of Loos, never being able to see his infant son, who was 6 months old at the time. His widow did remarry about 5 years later to Samuel John Bennett, and they had 6 children, continuing to reside in Cheltenham.
Pte. Alfred William Matthews
British Army 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
from:Marston Meysey, Swindon
(d.21st Oct 1918)
Alfred Matthews served in Gallipoli Peninsula or Mesopotamia and Flanders. He died on the 21st of October 1918 and is buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery in Belgium. His brother Charles died on 28th of October 1918 from war wounds. Nothing else known.
Pte. Arthur Henry Matthews
British Army 7th City of London Btn. London Regiment
from:Notting Hill
Pte. Charles Matthews
British Army
from:Stamford, Lincs
Charles Matthews served in the Great War.
CSM. Cornelius Matthews MiD.
Bristish Army 10th (1st Gwent) Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Cwm, Ebbw Vale
Cornelius Matthews joined the 5th South Wales Borderers on 20th of August 1914. He was discharged three weeks later due to a toe injury incurred two years earlier in a mining accident.
He joined 10th South Wales Borderers on the 12th of November 1914, was promoted to Corporal in February and went to France early in 1915. He was promoted to Lance Sergeant in April and Sergeant in July 1915, he was promoted to CSM in July 1917. He fought at Mametz Wood, was injured and returned to UK. Then he went to Mesopotamia with the 10th Battalion and contracted Malaria. He was Mentioned in Dispatches on the 21st of February 1919 and demobilised in March 1919.
Pte. Edgar Walter Matthews
British Army 2nd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Pontypool
(d.12th Apr 1918)
I only know a small amount about Edgar Walter Matthews. I am researching my family history, if you know any more I would be grateful to know.
Pte. Francis Samuel Matthews
British Army 6th Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Marylebone London
(d.11th Aug 1915)
Frankie Matthews was a maternal uncle I never knew.
Pte. Frank Matthews
British Army 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
(d.21st Oct 1914)
Unfortunately no details known about Frank Matthews service with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry.
Pte. Frank Harold Matthews
British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:London
My Grandfather, Frank Matthews, never spoke of his experience in the Great War. The only time he mentioned something was at his 50th wedding anniversary when a chance discussion uncovered that a party guest was related to one of his trench mates who died in his arms.
Granddad enlisted in 1910 at Woolwich Barracks. He was in the 2nd Battalion and after training went to India. He returned to the UK with the Battalion and on 7th November 1914 arrived in France.
My story gets vague from here. His medal roll shows he was with the 2nd Battalion for only a short time, and then with the 1st Battalion for the rest of the war. We all know he was injured 4 times, once he took a bullet and three times hit by shrapnel. We assume he was badly injured early on while with 2nd Battalion and was returned to the UK. When fit again he was sent back to France to reinforce 1st Battalion as in June 1015 the Times newspaper lists him in casualties with the 1st Battalion. All he would ever say is "I was at the Somme"
Spr. Frederick George Gladstone Matthews
Australian Imperial Forces 4th Field Coy. Australian Engineers
from:Melbourne, Australia
George Matthews was my grandfather. He signed up on 24th of July 1915 and went to Egypt until he was deployed by ship to Marseilles and by train to the Somme. He was injured at Bazentin le Grand on 4th of February 1917 and moved from Mametz Wood (Melbourne Camp) Dressing Station to Edgehill (although diary says Hedge Hill) near Albert, then onto Abbeville, then Rouen and finally to Harefield in the UK.
George had just been out of killing range of a bomb attack but the shrapnel shattered his left knee cap, fractured his femur and left him with permanent hearing loss. He did however return home, departing on 22nd of July 1917 and arrived in Melbourne on 24th of September 1917.
I am presently typing the contents of his second diary (the first was lost when sent home to a relative) and collecting additional information to form a history for my family. He died of old age in 1973 aged 82.
Sjt. G. Matthews
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. G. A. Matthews
British Army Army Service Corps
(d.6th Dec 1917)
Private Matthews is buried in the San Remo Town Cemetery in Italy.
Gunner Herbert George Matthews
British Army 33rd Bgde. Royal Field Artillery
from:Staffordshire
Pte. Jack Matthews
British Army 1st Battalion, C Company. Royal Welsh Fusilier
from:Plymouth
(d.16th May 1915)
Great Uncle Jack Matthews, was the older brother of my Grandmother Olive. He died at the Battle of Festubert on the 16th of May 1915 aged 21. Jack has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg, France. We visited his memorial and honoured him in 2015
Pte. John Carlyle Matthews
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 50th Btn. Alberta Regiment
from:Fordwich, Ontario
(d.2nd Nov 1918)
John Matthews was killed in action on the 2nd of November 1918 and is buried in the Auberchicourt British Cemetery in France. He as the son of Samuel and Margaret Matthews, husband of Lillian Matthews of Fordwich, Ontario
Sgt Joseph Thomas Matthews
British Army Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:Johnstown, Wrexham
(d.22nd April 1918)
Joseph Thomas Matthews,aged just 21,son of Hugh and Ellen Matthews. Commemorated at Pozieres British Cemetery, Somme. Also commemorated at Rhosllannerchrugog (Rhos) church yard at the grave of his mother and father. Written with pride and rememberance by his Great Nephew.
Pte. N. Matthews
South African Army 3rd Btn. South African Infantry
from:Australia
(d.3rd Apr 1916)
N Matthews served with the South African Infantry 3rd Battalion. He was executed for murder on 3rd April 1916 and is buried in the Alexandria (Dhatby) Military and War memorial Cemetery in Egypt. Even though he was serving in the South African Army, he was to be the only Australian to be executed. He was also the only soldier in WW1 who was hanged for his crime, and not executed by firing squad.
Pte. Richard Henry Matthews
British Army 8th Btn., D Coy. Middlesex Regiment
from:Southall
(d.1st July 1916)
Dick Matthews, a former labourer and motor driver, was my Grandmother's brother. He was born in Kensington, but for most of his short life lived at 2, White Street, Southall, Middlesex, next to the gasworks. His parents were James and Annie Matthews.
He enlisted in the Territorial Force on the first of January 1912 and served in the 1/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, D Company, first in Gibraltar and then in France. A letter home to his brother Jack said that he had joined the trench mortar course.
He was reported 'missing believed killed' on the first day of the Somme Offensive 1st of July 1916. He was 21. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial. The only thing that my Grandmother told my uncle about him was that he wept before being sent back to the front.
Boy Robert George Matthews
Royal Navy HMS Invincible
from:London
Born in Kentish Town London, Robert lived a rather full life. His father and three generations before him had all been Blacksmiths. His Mother was a laundry assistant. He was the oldest of a family of 12.
When he was 15, Robert ran away from home and joined the Navy No. J 26013 at the beginning of WW1. After training in Portsmouth and Plymouth, he sailed on the Invincible, as a boy, to the South Atlantic to the first Battle of the Falkland Islands. It was a very hard life aboard ship. One of his duties was to take the Captains dinner to his cabin and afterwards he was allowed to eat the leftovers. One day he mistakenly ate some of the food thinking the Captain had finished, and was flogged.
After coming back to England he jumped ship and went absent without leave, staying around London for a while, working as a Pot boy in the pubs. A very wise move, as the Invincible was sunk in the Battle of Jutland, with most hands and I would not be here to put these notes together.
Robert then joined the same regiment as his father. The Royal Artillery army no. 1048820 under an assumed name, Robert G. Smith and was sent to France. He was there in The Royal Field Artillery and The Royal Horse Artillery from July 1915 To May 1919. I cannot find his Army records, but do remember him talking of the area of Loos. He was sent home to England during these years with frost bite in his feet and was in hospital in The Nunnery, on Nunnery Lane in York. My grandparents, living in Nunnery Lane, would ask recuperating lads to tea on a Sunday and this is how my mother and father met. He went back to France for the rest of the war. In 1919 he transferred to Meerut, India with The Royal Field Artillery, training as a blacksmith, which had been a family profession going back four generations at least. He was in India, moving around quite a lot until November 1925, then going on the army reserve until 1931.On leaving the Army in 1925 he lodged with a lady called Mrs Ball, in Altofts, and worked as a blacksmith at P & P Pit, shoeing the pit ponies. Later he worked as an ARP Warden during the Second World War and as a British Railways Goods Guard until his retirement in November 1967 at the age of 70.
Also from 1939 to 1963 Robert was a Special Constable in Normanton, becoming a section leader and rising to the rank of Sergeant. He was also very keen gardener, and for many years had two and three allotments. He always said food came before flowers, but there were usually a few flowers too. During the war and times of shortage he would have as many as 60 rabbits, for our own pot and neighbours too. Spare vegetables and fruit were also sold for coppers to make a bit of money for next yearĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s seed.
Robert had a long and happy retirement, living latterly in Attlee Street and died aged 92 in 1990. He is buried in Altofts cemetery with Rose who had died many years before.
If he had not jumped ship, I would not have been here to tell this short tale, as there were only 5 survivors from the Invincible in the battle of Jutland.
Robert George Matthews
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
from:London
My Grandfather Robert George Matthews, a blacksmith before the war, served with the Royal Horse Artillery. Born in St Pancras, London ,on 2nd November 1872, the 1901 Census shows him to be working as a Farrier.
Pte. Sidney Wright Matthews
British Army 9th (Service) Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Brixham
Pte. Sidney Herbert Matthews
British Army 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Tredegar, South Wales
(d.9th May 1915)
Bert Matthews was my great grandfather. Although I never met him I feel I knew him very well. I have researched into my family tree and I have found plenty of information on him. He was born in Foxham Lock, Bremhill, Carne, Wiltshire in 3rd April 1885. His father was Jacob Matthews and mother Elizabeth Thorne. He married Jane St. Sinclair Anderson at the Tredegar Registrar Office on 27th October 1906. He was a coal miner at the time. They had Elizabeth St. Clair, Ernest Cornelius, Kenneth Victor McDonald, Sidney Herbert Stanley, Wilhelmina J, and Barbara.
He first enlisted into the 3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Pte. T. Matthews
British Army 4th Bn. transf. to (174810) Labour Corps Royal Irish Regiment
Private Matthews died on 15th June 1920 and is buried in the west part of the Colmcille's Graveyard, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland.
Rfm Thomas Matthews
British Army 12th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.15th Aug 1917)
Pte. Thomas Matthews
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Luke Matthews
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Berkshire Rgt.
from:Great Wibraham
(d.29th September 1916)
Sgt. Vernon George Matthews
British Army 5th Dragoon Guards
from:Windsor, Berkshire
Gnr. William Matthews
British Army 140th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Jarrow
(d.26th Feb 1919)
William Matthews served with 140th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery he was aged 30 when he died on 26th February 1919 in South Shields. Born in Devonport, he lived in Jarrow and was the son of William and Emily Maria Matthews (nee Crabb) of Fowey, Croft Terrace, Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as William Matthews age 22 Draughtsman in Shipyard living with his parents William and Emily Maria Matthews and family at 40 Croft Terrace, Jarrow.
William is buried in Jarrow Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. James Francis Mattimoe
British Army 2nd Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
(d.18th Sep 1918)
Frank Mattimoe was born on the 12th of Apr 1892 in Evenwood, Co.Durham. In December 1913 he had a son, John Edward Daykin. On the 24th of November 1915 Frank enlisted in the 14th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, as Private No. 25251 Army Records. He is recroded as Height:5'9"; Weight:154lbs; Chest:36.5", Expanded:+2"; Trade: Barman; Vision:D6/D6; Defects: Slight Flat Feet. On the 24th of February 1916 Frank was promoted to Unpaid Lance Corporal in the 81st Training Reserve and a month later was granted Pay of Lance Corporal. On the 29th of July 1916 he was severely reprimanded for Neglect of Duty when acting as Company Orderly Corporal. His daughter Esther Smith was born on the 25th of August. He was promoted to Corporal on the 29th of September His records show the s toppage of pay of 4d per day, paid to Lucy Ena Daykin for his illigitimate son on the 28th of June 1917. On the 14th of July 1917 Frank married Hannah Smith at St. Patrick's Church, Middlesbrough. On the 5th of August 1917 he was deprived of his Lance Rank for striking a Private Soldier.
On the 18th of October 1917 Frank embarked from Folkestone with the 2nd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment and disembarked at Boulgne the same day. He was wounded in action, on the 1st of December 1917, a Gun Shot Wound, Forearm, he was treated at Etaples and ejoined the 2nd Battalion on the 16th. On the 6th of February 1918 Frank was awarded 7 Days Field Punishment No.1. He was again wounded in action on the 21st of August 1918, this time a Gun Shot Wound Chest, it must have been slight, after treatment he rejoined his Battalion three days later.
Frank was killed in action at the Battle of Epehy on the 18th of September 1918 and is buried in Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt, Aisne, France.
Pte. Thomas Mattison
British Army 10th Btn. Yorks and Lancaster Regiment
from:Ferrybridge, Yorkshire
(d.26th Sep 1915)
Thomas Mattison from Ferrybridge, Leeds, died on the 26th of September 1915 and is remembered on the Loos Memorial in France. Son of Thomas and Margaret Mattison, of Brotherton, husband of Harriet Mattison.
He is related to Henry Lowther 4th Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps who died on the 25th of May 1915 and is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
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