Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhim to rest yesterday evening." A drummer of his company wrote home: "He was a great favourite with us all, both with the other officers and with us men. He was the best officer in the battn.; he was something like a brother might be, and was missed quite as much." He was buried in the English cemetery at Dranoutre, the Service being taken by the Senior Chaplain of the Brigade. The General and officers from all the regiments in the Brigade were present, his uncle, Col. J. S. Melville, commanding 8th E. Lancs. Regt., attending as chief mourner. [Illustration: =George A. Smith-Masters.=] =MATHER, JAMES=, Private, No. 8884, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of James Charles Mather, of 25, Fraser Street, Bolton, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Hough, Stripper and Grinder; _b._ Halliwell, Bolton, co. Lancaster, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. Brownlow-fold Council School; enlisted 3 Oct. 1910, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =James Mather.=] =MATHER, JOHN KEARSLEY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 5th _s._ of Arthur Mather, of Avonhill, Cheltenham, by his wife, Ethel Madeline, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Francis Willis, M.A.; _b._ Cheltenham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Sandhurst Division); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st York and Lancaster Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and joined his battn. at Quetta, India, in the following Dec.; served in India five years, being promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911; came home with his battn. in Dec. 1914; went to France, 15 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915, and buried at Verbranden Molen; _unm._ =MATHERRON, EDWARD JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8050), S.S. 103773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MATHESON, JOHN RODERICK FLETCHER=, Private, No. 8919, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., _s._ of the Rev. Dugald Matheson, United Free Church of Scotland, Minister of Tarbat; _b._ Kiltearn, co. Ross, June, 1880; educ. Tarbat Old Public School and Inverness; enlisted in the Highland L.I. in 1909, served through the South African War, and obtained his discharge in 1913. On the outbreak of war he was in Canada, but immediately re-enlisted, came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent, obtained his transfer to his old regt.; went to the Front at the end of Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He _m._ at Winnipeg, Canada, 1909, Bella, dau. of D. M. Davidson, of co. Inverness, but had no children. =MATHEWS, ALFRED FELTON=, Rifleman, No. 2657, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Felton Mathews, of Highworth, Wilts, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Shewry, of Southampton; _b._ 2 Sept. 1894; educ. Carlton Road Council School and Polytechnic, Regent Street; and was on the staff of Messrs. H. I. Nicoll & Co., of Regent Street, London, W., when war broke out, but was intending to enter a missionary college as a student. He joined the Rangers on 5 Sept. 1914, went to France on the following Christmas Day, and was killed in action near Ypres on 5 May, 1915. He was acting as a stretcher-bearer when a shell burst close to him, wounding him in the arm; but he pluckily refused to give in until quite exhausted, when he laid his groundsheet down and fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, another shell came and killed him. Buried in the grounds of the Asylum, Ypres; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alfred Felton Mathews.=] =MATHURIN, JOHN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MATHWIN, DOUGLAS GATECLIFF=, 2nd Lieut., 1/9th Battn. King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only surviving _s._ of the late Henry Mathwin, of Bickerton House, Birkdale, Southport, Schoolmaster, M.A., by his wife, Agnes (3, Bickerton Road, Southport), dau. of John William Gatecliff; _b._ Bickerton House, afsd., 9 June, 1885; educ. Bickerton House School; and was a Chartered Accountant; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/9th Liverpools, 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Richebourg l'Avoué on 9 May, 1915, being buried behind the trenches; _unm._ He was acting captain at the time of his death. [Illustration: =Douglas Gatecliff Mathwin.=] =MATRAVERS, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3204), S.S. 100832, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MATSON, CLIFFORD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10394, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MATTHEWS, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 5533, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William Henry Matthews, of 42, Butlin Street, Nechells, Birmingham, Millwright, by his wife, Frances; _b._ 24 June, 1885; educ. Cromwell Street Council School; enlisted 30 April, 1904; went to France, 17 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the severe fighting on 29 Oct. 1914, on which day the 2nd Coldstreams and the rest of the 1st Division were at one time driven from their trenches near Gheluvelt; and is now assumed to have been killed on that day. He _m._ at St. Clement's Church, Nechells, 3 Oct. 1909, Charlotte (18, Brighton Grove, Great Francis Street, Birmingham), dau. of Samuel Woodin, Painter, and had two children: Charles Henry, _b._ 9 Feb. 1915, _d._ 9 Jan. 1916; and Edna Francis, _b._ 9 Dec. 1910. [Illustration: =Charles Henry Matthews.=] =MATTHEWS, FRANCIS=, Stoker H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MATTHEWS, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12178, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MATTHEWS, FRANK GEORGE=, Midshipman, R.N., yr. _s._ of Brig.-Gen. Frank Broadwood Matthews, of Old Raven House, Hook, co. Hants, C.B., D.S.O., late commanding 2nd Battn. The King's Own Regt., and his wife, Edith Mabel Warner, dau. of the late Ralph George Price, of 26, Hyde Park Gardens, London, W.; _b._ Lichfield, co. Stafford, 9 Feb. 1898; educ. Parkside, Ewell, Surrey (Mr. A. Vaughan Pott); Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. following. [Illustration: =Frank George Matthews.=] =MATTHEWS, HAROLD CAREY=, Major, 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Frederick William White Matthews, of Low Hall, Sinnington, Yorks, J.P., formerly manager of Barclay's Bank, at Leyburn; by his wife, Ellen Georgiana, dau. of the late Rev. Hewett Carey; _b._ Hawes, Wensleydale, co. York, 25 April, 1879; educ. The School, Aysgarth, Yorks, entered Barclay's Bank, and at the time of the outbreak of war was second in charge of their Market Weighton Branch. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade as a Private in 1897, and was after |