MATTHEWS, Henry Clive
| Service Number: | 1181 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1916, Enlisted at Newcastle. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, March 1884 |
| Home Town: | Enfield (NSW), Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Permanent Way worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Mud Corner Cemetery, Wallonie, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1181, 34th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Newcastle. | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1181, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1181, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Henry Clive MATTHEWS (Service Number 1181) was born about March 1884 at Grafton.
Henry Matthews worked on the Waratah to West Maitland Railway Quadruplication.
At the time of his enlistment at Newcastle on 29th January 1916 he was unmarried and gave his father living at Mayfield as his next of kin.
Matthews embarked HMAT ‘Honorata’ on 2nd May 1916 in Sydney, reaching Plymouth on 23 June, having changed ship to the ‘Aragon’, probably in Egypt. After further training in England he proceeded overseas to France on 29th November and by February 1917 was working at constructing railways behind the front. He re-joined the actively fighting section of the Battalion on 15th May and was at first ‘wounded in action’ on 7th June, though the next day’s entry is ‘Killed in action (Wounding cancelled)’.
He was buried in Mud Corner Cemetery 1¼ miles SE of Warneton, Belgium.
A pension of £2 per fortnight was granted to Henry Mathews mother, Lena.