15206 Private Cuthbert Richard Mathews, (1892-8/1/1923). "severely gassed"

FOR THE EMPIRE'S CAUSE. 

DEATH. 

MATHEWS. — At Wakari Sanatorium, January 8, Private Cuthbert Richard Mathews, eldest son of the Rev. R. T. and Mrs Mathews, the Vicarage, Suva, Fiji.  -Otago Daily Times, 9/1/1923.

FUNERAL NOTICE. 

The Friends of the late No. 15206 Private CUTHBERT RICHARD MATHEWS (and Family) are respectfully invited to attend his Funeral, which will leave St. Matthew’s Church, Stafford street, TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 9th inst., at 11 a.m., for the Anderson’s Bay Cemetery. 

HOPE & KINASTON, Undertakers, 36 St. Andrew street.   -Otago Daily Times, 9/1/1923.

OBITUARY.

Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that the death has occurred, at Wakari, of Mr Cuthbert Richard Mathews, eldest son of the Rev. E. T. Mathews, Suva, Fiji, and Administrator; of the Diocese of Polynesia, who, with his wife, is at present on furlough in Dunedin. Deceased, who was 30 years of age, was born at Mount Lofty, South Australia, and when just a child he came to New Zealand with his  parents and was placed at Christ's College, Christchurch, where he received his education. Subsequently he was trained as a cable operator at Nelson, whence he was transferred to Singapore, and then to Adelaide, South Australia. Later he went to Fiji, and was placed in charge of the wireless station at Tavani. Shortly after the war broke out he came to Queenstown, New Zealand, enlisted, going across to France in D. Company l6th Reinforcements. At Messines he was severely gassed, and this, combined with exposure, set up pulmonary trouble, which necessitated his going into Cambridge Sanatorium on his return to New Zealand in 1918. From that time on up to the present, with the exception of a short spell when he went to his parents at Suva, and suffered badly in the influenza epidemic of November, 1918, he had been under treatment in the sanatoria of the Dominion, finally succumbing to the fell disease, and to heart trouble resultant from his war experiences.  -Press, 11/1/1923.

Memorial Arch — It was decided, at the request of Mrs P. Mackenzie, junr., Walter Peak, to have the name of her brother Cuthbert Richard Mathews (deceased) placed on the Roll of Honour on the Memorial Arch.  -Lake Wakatip Mail, 10/4/1923.

Anderson Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.