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Gunner ERNEST MATTHEWS

Service Number: 1406
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

4th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1918

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY

X. D. 10.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of William Matthews; husband of Mary Matthews, of Her Majesty's Cafe, Bourke St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Born at Chesham, Bucks, England.
  • Personal Inscription THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES FOND MEMORY CLINGS MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2144
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