A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : Railway Dugouts Burial Ground CWGC : Eric Graham Mateer -

Location

In Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : VI. C. 22.
Headstone


 
Inscription


119263 GUNNER
ERIC G MATEER
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
12TH JUNE 1916 AGE 18

JOHN 3:16


 
The reference to John 3:16 gives the verse 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.'
 
Further Information

Eric Graham Mateer

Son of : Edward Thomas Mateer and Mary Emily Mateer (née Genders), of "Clevelands," Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

Born : 5 December 1897, East Dulwich, London. (Registered Camberwell Mar 1898 qtr)

CWGC record ...
 
Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 09
Newport 1st Scout Group War Memorial WW I
Newport Castlehold Baptist Church War Memorial
Newport County Secondary School War Memorial WW I
Wellow Baptist Churchyard

Further biographical information

See entry under E G Mateer

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