Every Name a Story

M. Winchester 1917
Rank : Corporal

Wooler

Matthew  Winchester

Every Name a Story

In Wancourt British Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 203079 Corporal Matthew Winchester, serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers who died 19/04/1917.

Soldiers Dies in the Great War states that he was born and enlisted in Wooler.

He worked as a Tailor.  He married Daisy in 1911 and they set up home in Church Street, Wooler.  They had two sons, Sefton and John William.

Matthew Winchester is remembered in  Wooler on W68.01 and W68.02,  in Alnwick on A11.01, A11.03, A11.09 page 25, A11.21 and in the Alnwick Gazette Almanack page 39

First Name: Matthew

Last Name: Winchester

Service Number: 203079

Which War: First World War 1914-18

Died: 19/04/1917

Rank: Corporal

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers

Served in: Army

Unit/Ship: 1st/4th Bn.

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Northumberland

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Berwick upon Tweed

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Wooler

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