CO-CCCF-0001

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

HORACE LIONEL MATTHEWS

BORN 12 JAN. 1886.

DIED 1. OCT. 1965

AMY MARGUERITE MATTHEWS

DIED 10. JULY 1984

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909773529973
Longitude: 
-8.7931086099742
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Horace Lionel
Surname: 
Matthews
Date of birth - day: 
12
Date of birth - month: 
January
Date of birth - year: 
1886
Date of death - day: 
1
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1965
Name: 
Amy Marguerite
Surname: 
Matthews
Date of death - day: 
10
Date of death - month: 
July
Date of death - year: 
1984
Notes: 

HORACE LIONEL MATTHEWS, M.C. was the son of the Rector of Moviddy (Crookstown), and a Captain in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers when WW1 broke out. After service in France, his regiment was sent to Gallipoli in an ill fated attempt to force the Dardanelles. He served at Sedd el Bahr, gaining a Military Cross for bravery. He subsequently served in Salonika and Gaza, and took part in the relief of Jerusalem. After the war he served in Malaya (modern Malaysia), eventually retiring to Nadrid House, which he bought with his wife Amy Marguerite, a member of the Clarke tobacco family. Much of his lands were acquired during the flooding of the Lee Valley (see the informative ACR Heritage Booklet or, better still, Seamus O’Donoghue’s magisterial volume “Flooding of the Lee Valley”). Mrs. Clarke, mother of Mrs. Matthews, lies in an adjoining grave (see CO-CCCF-0005) having reached the fine age of 100. (Source: ACR Heritage).