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Private WILLIAM JAMES MATTHEWS

Service Number: 21157
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 November 1915

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RUE-DAVID MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

I. G. 33.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Ella Matthews, of Joyce Villa, Green Tye, Much Hadham, Herts. Native of Hatfield Heath, Harlow, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription UNITED IN LIFE WITH LOVE SINCERE IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED WHILE MEMORY HOLDS DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

RUE-DAVID MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 908
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