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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Lance Corporal George William Matthews. Born about 1894 in North Kensington, the son of George and Alice Matthews. His father was a Dyer. On the 1901 census he is shown as living at 185 Lancaster Road, North Kensington with his parents, his brother Charles, aged 4 and his sister Alice, aged 1 year. In April 1910 he was appointed as an Assistant Postman in the London Postal Service. The 1911 census shows the family still living at 185 Lancaster Road and he has another sister, Hilda, aged 1 year. His occupation is shown a G.P.O. Telegraph Messenger. In March 1914 he was appointed as a Postman in the London Western District Office. He enlisted in Hampstead into the Duke of Cambridge’s Own, 1^st/7^th Middlesex Regiment, service number 1300 and entered France on the 12^th March 1915. He was Killed in Action on the 25^th August 1915, aged 21 years and is buried in Grave I.F.7. in the Rue-Petillion Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Calais, France. His parents were by then living at 10 Broughton Road, Acton. He was posthumously awarded The British War Medal, 1914-1918 and The Victory Medal.

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