Lance Corporal Tom Matthews

Army Number : 240835

Battalion : 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Thomas and Ellen Ada Matthews, of 33, West Bar, Chesterfield. He was an errand boy prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, during the attack near Otto Farm, east of Wieltje, Belgium, in the Battle of Polygon Wood, during the 3rd Battle of Ypres.

Buried: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 14. Row B. Grave 5.