Three: 2nd Lieutenant E.A. Matthews, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed at Neuve Chapelle

1914-15 STAR TRIO (2. Lieut., North'n. R.) together with bronze memorial plaque (Edward Alexander Matthews) and original illuminated memorial scroll, all contained in a contemporary bronze display frame, extremely fine

2nd Lieutenant E.A. Matthews, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, son of Mrs. A.M. Matthews, of Sussex Rise, Tunbridge Wells, and the late Francis A. Matthews, was born in London on the 28th June, 1893. He was educated at Haileybury, and, having enlisted in The Buffs on the outbreak of the war, was given his commission, as 2nd Lieutenant (on prob ), in the Northamptonshire Regiment in November 1914, which was confirmed on the 17 February 1915. He was sent to France in January 1915, and was killed in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on the 10 March 1915. A brother officer, giving the following account of the circumstances wrote, ‘ The bombardment started at 7.30 am on the 10 March. We had taken the first line of German trenches and were advancing on the second, your son leading his men about twelve o'clock, when he was hit in both shoulders by shrapnel and died immediately. He was buried where he fell - behind the first line of German trenches.'