Cemetery: Bethune Town Cemetery
Country: France
Area: Pas De Calais
Rank: Brigadier General
Force: Royal Marines
Official Number:
Unit: Cdg. 198th Infantry Brigade. General Staff late Royal Marine Light Infantry.
Country of Service: British
Details: C B C M G Died of wounds received on 12th April. 13th April 1917. Age 50. Order of the Medjidie 3rd Class Osmanieh 3rd Class and Medjidie 2nd Class (Turkey). Son of Charles James and Mary Frances Matthews of Bath; husband of Mary F. Matthews of Windmill Milford-on-Sea Lymington. Seconded for service with Egyptian Army 1897. Governor of the Upper Nile 1903-1909. Commandant of Khartoum District 1910-1913. III. K. 56.
Photograph by Op Tribute2 / Martin Harvey