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Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. Graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914.
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
1914 Stone Frigate Yearbook, Royal Military College
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
The collection attributed to Lt. Matthews: The 1914-15 Star Trio mounted with the Memorial Scroll and Memorial Cross in original box of issue.
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Reverse view of Memorial Cross.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
903 Lt. Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1911-1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews of 138 Warren Rd Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario in June 1914. He served with the 1st Bde. Canadian Field Artillery. He was killed in action June 2 1916, aged 22, while remaining at his post as forward observing officer, where he continued to the last to direct his battery in an endeavor to protect the retiring infantry and to impede the progress of the advancing enemy. He is listed on the memorial arch at the Royal Military College of Canada. http://www.twgpp.org/information.php?id=933652
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
Photo: Lieut. Harold Stratton Matthews CFA, Killed at Sanctuary Wood June 2, 1916.
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Harold Stratton Matthews
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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1914 Stone Frigate Yearbook, Royal Military College
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The collection attributed to Lt. Matthews: The 1914-15 Star Trio mounted with the Memorial Scroll and Memorial Cross in original box of issue.
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Reverse view of Memorial Cross.
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903 Lt. Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1911-1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews of 138 Warren Rd Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario in June 1914. He served with the 1st Bde. Canadian Field Artillery. He was killed in action June 2 1916, aged 22, while remaining at his post as forward observing officer, where he continued to the last to direct his battery in an endeavor to protect the retiring infantry and to impede the progress of the advancing enemy. He is listed on the memorial arch at the Royal Military College of Canada. http://www.twgpp.org/information.php?id=933652
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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903 Lieut Harold Stratton Matthews (RMC 1914) was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Matthews, of Toronto. He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, June, 1914. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery. He died on June 3, 1916. His name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
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Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada
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Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston
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Photo: Lieut. Harold Stratton Matthews CFA, Killed at Sanctuary Wood June 2, 1916.
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 133 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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