MATHESON, Kenneth Murdoch 6/3401

MATHESON, Kenneth Murdoch 6/3401

MATHESON, Kenneth Murdoch 6-3401 AWNS_19170104_p044_i024_b (Custom)

Son of Donald Munro Matheson and Antonie Marie Elizabeth Matheson, of Whakapara, Whangarei.

Lance Serjeant, Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Died 1 October 1916, aged 30.  Commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, which commemorates more than 1,200 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the Battles of the Somme in 1916 and who have no known graves.

Sources:
Photo: Auckland Weekly News 4 January 1917.
Memorial photo: New Zealand War Graves Project.