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Company Serjeant Major MATTHEW JAMES AITHWAITE

Service Number: 5963
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

"B" Coy. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1916

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE

I. H. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Annie Aithwaite, of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorks.; husband of Margaret Mary Laughton (formerly Aithwaite), of 10, Elm Terrace, Pontefract.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY FROM WIFE & CHILDREN.
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