Corporal Stanley Matthews

Army Number: 305233 formerly 1734

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards : Military Medal.

Born At Worksop. Son of Mrs. R. Walker (formerly Matthews), and Mr. J. Walker (Stepfather); Husband of Edith Matthews, of 29, Vicars Walk, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Went to France on 2nd March 1915. Awarded the Military Medal London Gazette Date 3rd June 1916 “For continuous gallantry, mainly near Factory Corner in the Rue Du Bois area, in rescuing wounded men during hostile shelling on 22nd November 1915”. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 26, during the attack on Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot I, Row H, Grave 13.