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Private GEORGE THOMAS MATTHEWSON

Service Number: 14917
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

"B" Coy. 6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY

X. F. 42.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harriet Matthewson, of Gateshead-on-Tyne; husband of Florence Johnson (formerly Matthewson), of "White Lodge," Brooklands Avenue, Cleethorpes, Lincs.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS FROM HIS LOVING WIFE & CHILD
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Buried or commemorated at

CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 3615
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