George Harold MATTHEWS
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- Lieutenant, George Harold MATTHEWS. 2nd Gloucestershire Regiment. Wounded at Kheis, 28th May 1900. Died 2 days later at Prieska. Aged 22. Born May 1878. 2nd son of Thomas Gadd Matthews and Annie Maud Rankin Matthews of Newport Towers, Newport, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 30 May 1900, of wounds received in action at Kaheis, South Africa two days previously, aged 22.
(Wills and Admin, Ancestry). He lived at Newport Towers, Newport, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Died 29th May 1900 at Kheis, South Africa. His effects went to his fatherThomas Gadd
London Gazette dated 25th February 1896
4th Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, George Harold Matthews, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 14th February, 1896.
