Major General Francis Raymond Gage Matthews, CB, DSO (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.
After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Matthews was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1 February 1923.
[1][2][3] He transferred to the South Wales Borderers in 1935 while aide-de-camp to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
[4][5][3] After the war Matthews became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in June 1946, Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in June 1948 and President of the Regular Commissions Board at the War Office in August 1949.
[2] He went on to be General Officer Commanding 1st Infantry Division in December 1950, Director of Infantry at the War Office in December 1952 and Director of Civil Defence for Wales in 1956.