Donald Ross MATHIESON

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MATHIESON, Donald Ross

Service Number:	5778
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Tunnelling Companies
Born:	Plockton, Scotland, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	West Wallsend, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Died of wounds, Belgium, France, 5 April 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XI, Row O, Grave No. 24, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, West Wallsend Presbyterian Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 5778, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 5778, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 5778, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 5778, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Sapper Mathieson, 2nd Coy., Tunnelling Companies Reinforcements left a widow, Mrs M Mathieson, Carrington Street, West Wallsend, New South Wales.

Lochalsh is one of the ferry ports serving the Isle of Skye; there is a Donald Matheson shown on the Lochalsh War memorial-this could be 3614 Donald Matheson [https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/322683] who was born on Skye, survived the Great War and returned to Australia 9 February 1919, but although some war memorials show soldiers who survived, it is more likely to be Donald Ross Mathieson.

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