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Private John Carlyle Matthews

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Military service

Service number: 928681
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 50th Bn.
Birth: August 16, 1895
Death: November 2, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. B. 2.
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Son of Samuel and Margaret Matthews. Husband of Lillian Matthews, of Fordwich, Ontario.

His brother Murray Alvin Matthews died on June 3, 1919 while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment) and he is buried at Harriston Public Cemetery.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 469 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Auberchicourt is a commune mining village in the Department of the Nord, 11.5 kilometres east of Douai on the road to Valenciennes and AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is one kilometre west of the village on the northside of the road to Erchin, 300 yards away from the Communal Cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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