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Rfmn. John George Mathers
British Army 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Plaistow, Essex
(d.24th Aug 1918)
Rifleman John George Mathers joined the 17th (County of London) Battalion (Poplar and Stepney Rifles). He was killed in action on 24th August 1918 leaving a wife and 4 young sons one of whom was my father-in-law Albert Henry Mathers. John George went to war and never returned there was no body to bury and he is commemorated as a name on a plague at the Commonwealth War Graves memorial at Vis-en-Artois in Northern France