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Private LEONARD MATTHEWS

Service Number: 106060
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Hertfordshire Yeomanry

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 05 September 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY

XVI. N. 12.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Alice Amelia Matthews, of Brooklands, Sayesbury Rd., Sawbridgeworth, Herts; husband of Florence Maud Reed (formerly Matthews). His brothers Alfred Edmund Matthews and Ernest Matthews also fell.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS SWEET TO KNOW WE'LL MEET AGAIN WHEN PARTINGS ARE NO MORE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 7420
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