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James Arthur Matthews

Private

Service No. 31395

Age 28

Died on 9 August 1917

Gloucestershire Regiment

DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Sarah Rosetta Matthews, of Virginia Cottage, Welford-on-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon.

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I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

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James O valiant heart, to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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alison Ballinger

this is for my great uncle James Matthews he will be remembered by myself and my family.

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James A Matthews is my great great uncle, he is well remembered in his home village of Welford-upon-Avon. And i am a very proud member of hi...

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James, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment a...

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