Francis Matthews

Major-General Francis Raymond Gage Matthews, (26 January 1903 – 26 May 1976) was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War and later was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.

Military career After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Matthews was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1 February 1923. He transferred to the South Wales Borderers in 1935 while aide-de-camp to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta. Director of Infantry at the War Office in December 1952 and Director of Civil Defence for Wales in 1956. His last appointments were as Commandant of the Civil Defence Staff College in 1956 and Director of Civil Defence for the South West Region in 1960. Matthews was also Colonel of the South Wales Borderers from 1954 to 1961.