Service Details
Name:
 MATTHEWS
Given Name:
 WILLIAM RICHARD
Initials:
 W R
Service No:
 562794V
Rank:
 Leading Wireman
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S.A.S. Bever
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-30
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Sunk by mine, off Pireaus, Greece
Additional
Information:
Son of Richard Edgar Matthews and Josephine Helena Matthews, of Scottburgh, Natal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Johannesburg (West Park) Cemetery.
Commemoration
Country:
 Greece
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Cemetery:
 PHALERON WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4. E. 6.

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