Douglas Spencer Matthews

[*Sandra*]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pilot Officer Douglas Spencer Matthews - Royal Air Force - 45522 - buried Swindon (Christ Church) burial ground.
The private memorial marking the grave of Pilot Officer Matthews no longer provides adequate commemoration.  The commission are in the process of producing a new headstone.

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=93123

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/115166/

FIND A GRAVE

Son of Cecil Connrad Roy and Mary Inglis Matthews of Swindon.  Husband of E D Matthews also of Swindon.


Christ Church Burial Ground
Swindon, Swindon Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England
PLOT Extn. Grave 341.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98210715/douglas-spencer-matthews

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UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966

P/O Douglas Spencer Matthews - 1919 (died aged 23 years) 9 January 1942
Service Branch:   Royal Air Force Squadron Number 45522
Unit:   61
Burial Place Swindon (Christ Church) Burial Ground, United Kingdom
Father Cecil Conrad Roy - Mother Mary Inglis Matthews - Spouse E. D. Matthews
Reference Number 45522 Matthews.

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Births Mar 1919 
Matthews    Douglas S    Carter    Swindon    5a   24

Marriage March 1940
Lousley    Ellen D    Matthews    Swindon    5a   48

A female birth in June 1941

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Mother Mary Inglis Matthews - 15b October 1951

FIND A GRAVE

Christ Church Burial Ground
Swindon, Swindon Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England
PLOT EX/00705

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220775097/mary-inglis-matthews

Cecil Conrad Roy Matthews - 11 June 1958


Christ Church Burial Ground
Swindon, Swindon Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England
PLOT EX/00705

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220774566/cecil-conrad_roy-matthews

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1911 census 93 Graham St, Swindon, Wilts.

Cecil Conrad Roy Matthews   26
Mary Inglis Matthews   26
Cecil Harold Noel Matthews   3
George Cornelus Matthews   1

Could be some of these as well



Births Dec 1912   
Matthews    Leslie S    Carter    Swindon    5a   28
    
Births Mar 1914   
MATTHEWS    Violet M    Carter    Swindon    5a   27
    
Births Jun 1916
Matthews    Dennis R    Carter    Swindon    5a   21
    
Births Jun 1917   
Matthews    Kathleen I    Carter    Swindon    5a   60
   
Births Mar 1919   
Matthews    Douglas S    Carter    Swindon    5a   24

Births Sep 1920   
Matthews    Gerald J    Carter    Swindon    5a   45

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May be, if you put this information on Facebook - Swindon images, this would help.

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Good suggestion. Would be great but I only use facebook for family things. 

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Brother Cecil H N Matthew married 1933 Swindon Wiltshire to Elsie E Stack.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8H-CBSN

Deaths Mar 1973
 
Matthews    Cecil Harold M     -NO1907    SWINDON    7C   2757

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