Notes
The Roll lists his address as 7 Neville Place, Sweet Briar Walk.
(CWGC records that Private M McCarthy, regimental number 117361, died on 7/7/1918 having served in 244th Company of the Machine Gun Corps, and is buried in grave A.4 at Selestat (Schlestadt) Communal Cemetery in Germany. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Southwark who enlisted at Redhill, and that prior to joining the Machine Gun Corps he had served in the Royal Army Service Corps under regimental number R4/108567. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at Schlettstadt, and that his legatees were his mother and sister, both named Mary. On the 1911 census Matthew had been aged 14, staying with his uncle and aunt at 9 Grove Road, Redhill; his widowed mother and sister were living at 42 Milton Street, Peterborough on that census. On the 1901 census he had been staying with his grandparents, Matthew and Mary McCarthy, in Grove Road, Redhill. The International Red Cross "Prisoners of the First World War" archive records that his mother (misrecorded as Margaret) made enquiries from 7 Neville Place, Sweet Briars, Peterborough re her son Matthew James McCarthy, who had been missing since 21/3/1918).