Arthur Gordon Matthew [SEP] date of birth
Arthur Gordon Matthew
Brigadier Arthur Gordon Matthew (22 December 1898 – 6 October 1947) was a British Royal Artillery officer who served in the First World War and the Second World War. 
Matthew (who was known as "Hammer") served in the First World War and in North Africa during the Second, including the Siege of Tobruk and Battle of El Alamein. After the Normandy campaign and the Rhine crossing, he served as commander of the Kiel Brigade area during the post-war occupation of Germany.
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Early life.
Waddell was born around 1734 in Lisburn, County Down, Ireland, to Hugh and Isabella Brown Waddell who were of Scotch-Irish origin, although the exact date of his birth is unknown. As a family friend to the aristocrat Arthur Dobbs of County Antrim, who had just been appointed as Governor of North Carolina, Waddell was sent to the colonies in 1753 or 1754, and enlisted in the service of the acting Governor, Matthew Rowan, as a lieutenant.
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