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Major General Harold Halford Matthews

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Military service

Age: 62
Rank: Major General
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Army General List
Death: May 12, 1940

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. 35. Lot 5. Grave 1.
Additional information

Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Matthews, of Auckland City, New Zealand; husband of Helen T. Matthews (nee Le Sueur), of Ottawa. Four times Mentioned in Despatches in the 1914-18 War.

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY contains 98 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 113 from the Second World War. Many of the graves are in the two veterans plots, where there is also a Cross of Sacrifice dedicated to all service casualties buried in the cemetery.

The OTTAWA CREMATION MEMORIAL is in a shelter adjoining the newer of the veterans plots in the cemetery and commemorates 26 Second World War servicemen whose remains were cremated elsewhere in Canada and the U.S.A.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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