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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/17198
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
January 30, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4211.
Additional information
Son of Shirley M. Matthews and Maude A. Matthews, of Calgary, Alberta.
Additional citations
Distinguished Flying Medal
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
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Grave Marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteer Henry Drury -
Memorial Cairn
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Photo of Lionel Wollaston Matthews
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Photo of Lionel Wollaston Matthews
May 1941 -
Memorial
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Memorial
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Correspondence
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Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Lionel Wollaston Matthews
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 380 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
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