MATTHEW, Matthew
| Service Number: | 26666 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Salisbury, Gawler Plains, South Australia, 15 July 1868 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Saddler |
| Died: | South Fremantle, Western Australia, 1954, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 26666, 4th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 7 Sep 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 26666, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Sep 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 26666, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Port Sydney, Melbourne | |
| 4 May 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 26666, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, per HT Themistocles | |
| 12 Jul 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 26666, 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Matthew was the fourth of eight children of Hannibal Matthew (born 1840 in Cornwall, England) and second wife Margaret Doyle (born 1843 in County Wicklow, Ireland). Hannibal was a Labourer at Gawler Plains in South Australia when he married Margaret in 1861. Hannibal and Margaret moved to Victoria with their children in 1869, and Hannibal worked as a Carter at Brunswick. He was driving his horse and dray from Brunswick to Melbourne in September 1877 when his horse shied and he fell under the dray and was killed. Margaret remarried in 1878.
Matthew moved to Western Australia and was working as a Saddler at Day Dawn in Cue in 1901 when he married Margaret Weatherall (born 1880 in Perth, WA). The family moved to Perth in 1913, where Matthew was a Saddler at Subiaco when he enlisted in the AIF in March 1916, He was a Gunner (Service No:26666) with 4th Field Artillery Brigade 8th Reinforcements and in February 1917 was evacuated from France suffering from rheumatism. He was Discharged in July 1917.
Matthew and Margaret settled in Perth, where Mattew was an Engine Fitter and Engine Driver and Margaret a Shopkeeper, until the family relocated to Kalamunda in the 1920's. Matthew worked as a Saddler at Kalamunda until he retired in 1945 - Margaret died in 1937. Matthew retired to South Fremantle, where he died in 1954.