Sunday 15 July 2007

29. LCpl D Lees & Sgt F Matthews

LCpl Lees' grave has aready appeared in Photo 14, and this is another view of this plot in Shell Green cemetery. LCpl David Lees 318 belonged to the 11th Battalion AIF and was killed in action on 2 May 1915, aged 45.

On the far right there is another cross, which I believe shows the name of Sgt Francis Matthews 71 of the 11th Battalion AIF, killed in action on 3 May 1915, aged 26. There is another man with the name Matthews buried in Shell Green - Trpr Frank W Matthews 153 of the 6th Australian Light Horse, killed in action 17th September 1915 aged 27, but the original photograph seems to have a prefix "S" of Sgt, and both Lees (Plot 12) and Francis Matthews (Plot 10) were buried originally near to one another in the Artillery Road cemetery.