Craik Cemetery (Saskatchewan)
Canada
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An Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment but whose home was in Craik, Saskatchwan (Canada), is remembered on a family memorial in the town cemetery.
2nd Lieutenant Avard Yuill Mathews
1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Killed 26 October 1918.
Commemorated on Panel 5, VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL.
Avard Yuill Mathews is commemorated on the memorial gates of the University of Sakatchewan and in the Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial.
Avard Yuil Mathews was an Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment who lost his life in the First World War and who originated from Saskatchewan in Canada. He was originally a Lance Corporal in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but was then commissioned into the 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. Details of his career in the Yorkshire Regiment are not known at the moment, though his name is found in the Green Howards Gazette (June 1918, Vol XXVI No 301 p22 and Nov 1918 Vol XXVI No 304 p 57). The latter reference was his being reported missing.
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