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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 404

Pair: Private S. B. Matthews, 1/1st Berkshire Yeomanry (Hungerford), who was killed in action in Palestine in November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2803 Pte. S. B. Matthews, Berks. Yeo.), good very fine (2)

Sidney Beach Matthews was born at Colchester, Essex, lived at Chieveley, Berkshire and enlisted in the Berkshire Yeomanry at nearby Reading. With reference to Corporal Gale - see previous Lot - both were living in Chieveley and had similar service in Palestine. Matthews first entered the Egypt theatre of war in - of after - 1916 and was killed in action in Palestine on 28 November 1917. He is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery.

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