Ernest Matthews

First nameErnest
InitialsE
SurnameMatthews
Birth TownDeptford, S.E.
Resided TownGreenwich, S.E.
NationalityBritish
Date of Death04/10/1916
FateKilled in Action June 1915.
RankPrivate
Service NumberG/5211
Duty LocationFrance And Flanders
Campaign Medals
  • Victory Medal
  • British War Medal
  • Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI
ServiceBritish Army
RegimentQueen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Battalion7th Battalion
Commemorated
  • Britain on the Remembrance Board at the Parish Church of St Michael & All Angels, Maidstone
  • Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval Grave Reference 111 F. 3.

parents: John and Charlotte Matthews; husband of Emily Jane Matthews, of 9, Fant Lane, Maidstone. Emily was baptised as an adult on 20th April 1906. They were married in 1906 and had 3 children George Ernest, Ernest John and Kate Louise. George and Ernest were baptised at St Michael’s on 15th