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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 492

Three: Company Quartermaster Sergeant T. G. Matthews, South Wales Borderers

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (3907877 Cpl. T.G. Matthews. S. Wales Bord.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for wear, lightly cleaned, about very fine (3)

Thomas Gordon Matthews, of Ebbw Vale in South Wales, was born in November 1913 and is confirmed upon the Medal Roll as serving with the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers for Operations on the North West Frontier of India. Transferring to the Territorial Army Reserve, he was later assigned to the 5th (Home Defence) Battalion (TA) and by the time of his marriage in December 1940 was recorded as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant, at the young age of 27. Sadly however, he was to die only a short time later, in November 1941, of pneumonia, pericarditis and a hernia, and was interred at New Hall Lane cemetery in Preston, Lancashire.

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