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Corporal JAMES LAWRENCE MATHEWSON

Service Number: 17/119
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F.

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 October 1917

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TYNE COT MEMORIAL

N.Z. Apse, Panel 3.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Native of Hyde, Otago. Son of the late Laurence and Johanna Mathewson, of Otago; husband of Effie Mary Forster Mathewson (nee Morgan), of 60, Grosvenor St., Kensington, Dunedin. Left New Zealand in 1914 as a member of the Veterinary Corps. Also served in Egypt.
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TYNE COT MEMORIAL
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 34930
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