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Frank William Matthews

Private

Service No. 201746

Age 35

Died on 17 April 1917

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Seymour Matthews, of Fillongley, Coventry.

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Henry Harrison

Frank, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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From friends of the Legion at the Coventry Building Society

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Frank, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown...

Henry Harrison

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