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Sergeant GORDON WILLIAM LASH MATTHEWS

Service Number: 777634
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

266 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1941

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY

Plot 2 Row 1 Grave 49.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gordon Paxton Lash Matthews and Margaret May Matthews (nee Shone) of S. Rhodesia. His brother Sergeant Keith Lash Matthews also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1269
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