Remembering Today 13/6/44 Lt:Robert Vivian Mather,165682,6th Bn. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

Lieutenant MATHER, ROBERT VIVIAN
Service Number 165682

Died 13/06/1944

Aged 24

6th Bn.
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

Son of Arthur Stuart Mather and Gertrude Margaret Mather, of Sheffield. LL.B.


INSCRIPTION
... AND WROTE MY WILL ACROSS THE SKY IN STARS TO EARN YOU FREEDOM"
Casualty
Buried at RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE

Location: Calvados, France
Number of casualties: 871

Cemetery/memorial reference: VI. J. 3.

 

Marriages Jun 1919
Mather, Arthur S - Kober - Ecclesall B. - 9c 934
Kober, Gertrude M - Mather - Ecclesall B. - 9c 934

Births:
Mather Robert V - Kober - Hampstead - Mar 1920
Mather Harold G - Kober - Ecclesall B. - Mar 1921
Mather Doreen M - Kober - Hendon - Mar 1923

1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
20 Dover Road, Sheffield C.B., Yorkshire (West Riding)
NAME DOB OCCUPATION
Arthur S Mather 26 Feb 1895 Metal Representative (Travelling)
Gertrude M Mather 31 Jul 1891 Unpaid Domestic Duties
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Robert Vivian Mather (165682)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 6th Bn.
13 June 1944, aged 24
School magazine - R. V. Mather, Lieut , The Green Howards, died of wounds in France in June 1944. His Commanding Officer wrote : "Bob particularly distinguished himself during the landings on D-day and afterwards, and I should like you to know how well he did and how very much his Company, the Battalion and I will miss him." Mather gained the degree of LL.B. at Sheffield University in June 1940 and entered the Army the following month, obtaining his commission in December 1940. He was engaged to Miss Barbara Hamer of Sheffield. - Lt. Bob Mather... was in the initial assault on Gold Beach on the British right flank. His battalion, the 6th Green Howards, was one of first units of the famous 50th (Northumbrian) Division who struggled ashore at zero hour... Mather and his battalion forced their way inland, but he was fatally wounded four days later after taking part in some of the heaviest fighting of the whole Normandy campaign. - On leaving school in 1937 Bob Mather studied at Sheffield University and gained his Bachelor of Law degree in 1940. He then entered the army after serving in the University OTC and was commissioned in the Green Howards by the end of 1940. He went out with the 6th Battalion to North Africa as part of the 50th Division and saw action at Alamein and Wadi Akarit before taking part in the invasion of Sicily. Chosen for the initial assault on D-Day, his battalion landed at La Riviere on Gold beach at H (zero) Hour and after taking their beach they moved inland continually involved in heavy fighting. Four days later Bob Mather was seriously wounded and died on the 13th June. He is buried in a British Military Cemetery near Bayeux.
Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville
Died of wounds in France. Chosen for the initial assault on D-Day, his battalion landed at La Riviere on Gold beach at H (zero) Hour and after taking their beach they moved inland continually involved in heavy fighting. Four days later Bob Mather was seriously wounded and died on the 13th June.

Source: KIng Edward VII