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Pte. Abraham Matthews MM.
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Salford, Lancashire
(d.15th October 1918)
Abraham Matthews won the Military Medal for gallantry prior to his death and was 19 years old when he was killed in Gullegem, 7 miles from Ypres during fierce fighting to liberate the town. He was killed in the garden of the local chapel and was buried there along with his comrades who fell on the same day. In 1920 he was exhumed and reburied in the CWGC at Dedizeele New Cemetery.