Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: West-Vlaanderen
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Official Number: 17/119,
Unit: 1st Bn. Otago Regiment N.Z.E.F.
Country of Service: British
Details: Killed in action 12th October 1917. Age 43. Native of Hyde Otago. Son of the late Laurence and Johanna Mathewson of Otago; husband of Effie Mary Forster Mathewson (nee Morgan) of 60 Grosvenor St. Kensington Dunedin. Left New Zealand in 1914 as a member of the Veterinary Corps. Also served in Egypt. N.Z. Apse Panel 3.
Photograph by Op Tribute2