Service Details
Name:
 MATTHEWS
Given Name:
 NICHOLAS
Initials:
 N
Service No:
 494
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-04-03
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Date of Birth:
 1879-09-11
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Executed for murder, hanged, at Hadra Prison
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Mary Williams. Husband of Violet Myrtle Matthews. They had two children, twins, Katherine Mary Irene Matthews and William John Matthews both born 1908. Cousin of Mrs. William Harvey, of Tregeseal, St. Just, Cornwall. Born Murtoa, Victoria, Australia. Of the 346 British Commonwealth soldiers executed during WW1, Matthews was one of 5 South Africans, the crime was murder.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 C. 3.

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