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Harold Matthews

Private

Service No. 1529

Age 23

Died on 20 September 1914

9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers

LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL

Seine-et-Marne, France

Son of Henry and Rachel Matthews; husband of Mabel Elizabeth Matthews, of Sledmere, Malton, Yorks.

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Thank you to all who lost their lives to save our countries. You will always be remembered.

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Harold, O valiant heart, your glory came in La Ferte. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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To a cavalry soldier of the great war. I do not know you but I would have liked to have known you. My paternal grandfather, John Elson Carp...

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

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