Source: April 1917 casualty.
Family Search: When Private Lawrence Matthews was born on 28 January 1895, in Caledon East, Belfountain, Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Matthews, was 40 and his mother, Rachel Delilah Van Wyck, was 33. He lived in Cardwell, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as butcher in Caledon East, Belfountain, Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada. He died on 12 April 1917, in Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France.
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The two in the photo who survived are Reginald “Paddy” Brown, a private with the 126th Battalion, and Arthur Douglas, a private with the 126th Battalion.
From left to right: Reginald “Paddy” Brown, Lawrence Matthews, Wilbert McCaffrey and Arthur Douglas of Caledon, Ontario. (Donna Davies, Peter Elms and Murray Hesp.) Source: http://greatwaralbum.ca/Great-War-Album/About-the-Great-War/Life-on-the-Front-Lines/Lawrence-Mathews
Private Lawrence Matthews. Regimental no. 775828.
This man enlisted with the 126th (Peel) Overseas Battalion at Brampton, Ontario, on 27 January 1916. He was a butcher
by trade and had no prior military experience.
He embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for England on 14 August 1916, arriving at Liverpool on the 24th aboard the SS Empress of Britain.
He was transferred to the 116th on 15 October 1916 and was moved to Bramshott Camp. He was then transferred to the 18th Battalion and arrived at the Canadian Base Depot, Harve on 29 November 1916, and arrived “in the field” with the 18th Battalion on 3 December 1916.
He served with the 18th Battalion until killed in action on 12 April 1917.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 