Name
Frank Richardson Matthews
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Leading Seaman
229890
Royal Navy
H.M. Submarine "E.4."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OTLEY (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Submarine Enclosure.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 8 Aug 1887 and baptised in Ponder’s End on 9 Sep 1887 son of James Thomas and Gertrude Matthews and living in 2 Mostyn Villas, Whitley Road, Hoddesdon in 1901 and later in 11 Hertford Road, Hoddesdon.
Wartime Service
He was in the Navy serving on Submarine C. 36 in 1911. He died when his submarine E4 collided with her sister submarine E41 during exercises off Harwich in the North Sea. All hands (about 30) were lost on E4 and only 14 survived from E41.
Additional Information
Brother of Gunner Herbert George Matthews who was killed in action on 24 Sep 1918 and whois also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
