Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Henry and Mary Matthews. The War Diary for today records. BAZENTIN LE PETIT WOOD. By next morning about 100 men answered the roll, so they were sorted out and given a piece of trench about 150 yards along the north side of BAZENTIN to PETIT WOOD. About 2.00pm. 40 men were taken up to support the 8th and 9th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. in a further attack on the north west corner. The troops holding the corner had been obliged to withdraw a few yards as the bombing and rifle grenading from the enemy 90 yards away was becoming intense and there being many casualties. It was believed that the enemy had again reached the corner, but by the time our troops got through, he had retired again to his redoubt. The 40 men were left in the strong point under the 9th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. until the Battalion was relieved, nothing more of importance happened during the day or night and the enemy guns were quieter.