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Serjeant ALPHEUS THOMAS WILLIAM MATTHEW

Service Number: DM2/178686
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 December 1918

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XLVII. C. 5.

France

Etaples Military Cemetery. Grave of Serjeant Matthew, Royal Army Service Corps. King George V laid flowers on Sjt. Matthew's grave during his visit to the cemetery as part of his pilgrimage to the Western Front in May 1922, on behalf of the Queen, who had received the request from Sjt. Matthew's mother.

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 188th Siege Bty. Ammunition Col. Royal Garrison Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alpheus Thomas William and Jane Ellen Matthew; husband of B. M. R. Matthew, of Bear Hotel, Devizes, Wilts.
  • Personal Inscription RESTING IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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