Date of Birth
21 October 1885
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Tow Lane, C.E., Durham
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant, Acting Quartermaster Sergeant
East Yorkshire Regiment, 10th Battalion
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
12 September 1917
Buried/memorial
Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France (Grave/Memorial reference: III. D. 16)
Biography
Second Lieutenant Matthew Southern attended Borough Road College for two years before graduating with an Intermediate Science London. He enlisted in the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Commercials pals Battalion) in late 1915. He rose to Corporal and was ten commissioned at a later date. Southern was 30 when he died on 12 September 1917.
Sources
Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1905 application, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), 1909 Annual Report