18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Polly Harmour    
                Born: 19 Aug 1889          in Berkshire  1,2 (see note 1)
             Resided: 1939                 in Cambridge  1
                Died: 1975                 in Huntingdonshire  3 (see note 2)
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: William John Matthews     
             Married: 1919                 in Berkshire  2 (see note 3)
                Born:  5 Aug 1893          in Trumpington  2,1 (see note 4)
              Census: 1901                 in Cambridge Road, Trumpington   (see note 5)
              Census: 1911                 in High Street, Trumpington   (see note 6)
          Occupation: 1911                 House Boy  
            Military: 1914 - 1918            4
             Resided: 1939                 in Cambridge  1
          Occupation: 1939                 Scientific Instrument Packer  1
                Died: 1989                 in Cambridge  3 (see note 7)
              Father: Ellis Matthews   (1859 - 1898) 
              Mother: Elizabeth Hannah Wells   (1864 - 1944) 
Notes 
          Media link: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2976017
          Media desc: Lives of the First World War

Sources:
(1) 1939 Register. 
(2) FreeBMD website. 
(3) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(4) Roll of Honour, in Trumpington Village Hall. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Sep 1889 Windsor 2c 437
Note (2) Dec 1975 Huntingdon 9 0966   age 86
Note (3) Jun 1919 Windsor 2c 1419
Note (4) Sep 1893 Chesterton 3b 448
Note (5) Age 7, born Trumpington, with mother and family
Note (6) Age 17, born Trumpington, with mother and family.  House Boy domestic
Note (7) Jan 1989 Cambridge 9 608   born 5 Aug 1893

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