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Corporal MATTHEW SHARRATT FORD

Service Number: 2595
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Machine Gun Corps

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 April 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE

Plot 3. Row B. Grave 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Native of Newtown, Montgomeryshire. Son of Fanny and the late Alfred Ford, J.P., of Ivycot, Abermule, Montgomeryshire, Wales.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

LE GRAND HASARD MILITARY CEMETERY, MORBECQUE
Nord France
Number of casualties: 442
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