Lt. Matthews

A prominent Los Angeles funeral director, Dennis Matthews attended school in Quindaro, Kansas; in 1898, at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, he ran away from school and joined Company C, 23rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry, performing garrison duty in Cuba. After the war's end, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Upon America's entry into World War I in April 1917, Matthews subsequently was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company C, 350th U.S. Machine Gun Battalion, 92nd U. S. Division and saw action in France.