In Memory Of

MATTHEWS, NICHOLAS

Service Details
Age:
 36
Date of Birth:
 1879-09-11
Service No:
 494
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 3rd Regt.
Unit 2:
 "C" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-04-03
Cause of Death:
 Executed for murder, hanged, at Hadra Prison
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 C. 3.
Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Country:
 Egypt
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.