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Digital gallery of Private John Richard Matthews
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Matthews
From Left to Right: James, Samuel, Harold (father to Harry), and Harry Hinscliffe.
“Here are four brothers who enlisted for active service and trained in this city [London, Ontario]. They are the quartet of Hinschliffes [Hinscliffe], cousins of Mrs. Mathews [Matthews], of 286 [285] Thames street, whose husband and son, both Johns [Jack and John], are in Belgium with the 18th Battalion: From left to right they are James Hinschliffe, of Stratford, who left London with the 24th Battalion. Samuel Hinschcliffe, of Grovenor street, London, a member of the 29th Battery of Artillery, on the heights; Harold Hinschliffe, of Wingham, a bugler for the 71st Battalion, and Harry, of the same town and corps.
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Matthews
Circumstances of Death Register: "Killed in Action."
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Matthews
Matthews, John Richard: Service no. 54288. Source: London Free Press. November 3, 1916. Via Allan Millar from Facebook.
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Matthews
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Richard Matthews
From the London Free Press May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From Left to Right: James, Samuel, Harold (father to Harry), and Harry Hinscliffe. “Here are four brothers who enlisted for active service and trained in this city [London, Ontario]. They are the quartet of Hinschliffes [Hinscliffe], cousins of Mrs. Mathews [Matthews], of 286 [285] Thames street, whose husband and son, both Johns [Jack and John], are in Belgium with the 18th Battalion: From left to right they are James Hinschliffe, of Stratford, who left London with the 24th Battalion. Samuel Hinschcliffe, of Grovenor street, London, a member of the 29th Battery of Artillery, on the heights; Harold Hinschliffe, of Wingham, a bugler for the 71st Battalion, and Harry, of the same town and corps.
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Circumstances of Death Register: "Killed in Action."
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Matthews, John Richard: Service no. 54288. Source: London Free Press. November 3, 1916. Via Allan Millar from Facebook.
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the London Free Press May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 292 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aix-Noulette is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, about 13 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. From Arras take the D937 towards Bethune. At Aix-Noulette, turn right at the church. The Communal Cemetery and Extension are a few hundred metres on the left side of the road to Bully-Grenay.
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