Matthew Henry SCARFF (a.k.a. Henry McSHANE) Alfred LARKINS.

SCARFF Matthew Henry Staples, served as Henry McSHANE. Driver 878, 2nd Australian Infantry. Died of wounds 20th July 1915 aged 29. Gone from our home but not from our heart. Son of George and Mary Jane Scarff, husband of Edith Scarff, of 28, Bagnall Street, Anfield, Liverpool, England. Born at Seaforth, Liverpool. In 1901 he was living at 1 Hemer Place, Bootle , with his parents and siblings. He was a shipping clerk, his father was a ships steward. In 1911 he was living with his wife and child at his brother, Sidney Staples Scarff and his wife's home at 4 Coniston Street, Breck Road, Liverpool. He was employed as a drapers clerk.
Some notes for his army records
He was born in 1884 at Bootle, Liverpool, husband of Edith nee Rannard who he married in Liverpool in 1904. They had one child, Mildred Helena, born 1906, birth registered in the West Derby district, Liverpool. On the 24th August 1914 he joined up with the name of Henry Mc Shane aged 26. His next of kin was his wife, Edith of 28 Bagnall Street, Anfield. After he had completed his training he embarked for the Mediterranean, via England on H.M.A.T,(His Majesty’s Australian Transport) A23, Suffolk. While in action at Gallipoli Peninsula he was shot and wounded in the chest. He was treated in the field and date unknown he was invalided to a hospital Malta on Hospital Ship, Gascon. On the 18th July 1915 he was reported that he was dangerously ill in hospital in Malta and died from his wounds on the 20th July. His wife received from the army his personal effects on the 29th November 1916 and she was living with her daughter at 41 Fairy Street, Emerton, Liverpool.

LARKINS Alfred. Private 891 New Zealand Otago Regiment . Died 20th July 1915. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Larkins, of Lower Harbour, Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Both at rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot B Row II Grave 3