MATTHEWS, Lindsay Sydney
| Service Number: | NX56562 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Bombadier |
| Last Unit: | Anti Tank Batteries / Companies |
| Born: | Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 5 February 1906 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Lorry Driver and Machinery Assembler |
| Died: | Accidental, Ambon, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 28 August 1944, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Parkes & District Cenotaph, Peak Hill Memorial Gates, Peak Hill War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Bombardier, NX56562 | |
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| 5 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombardier, NX56562 | |
| 13 Dec 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Bombadier, NX56562, Anti Tank Batteries / Companies, embarked Darwin for Ambon | |
| 17 Apr 1942: | Imprisoned Ambon, Confirmed PoW of Japanese on 2 June 1942 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Bombardier Lindsay Sydney Matthews (Service No:NX56562) enlisted in the AIF as a Private on 5 July 1940, and was a Bombardier attached to 18 Anti Tank Battery on 13 December 1941 when he embarked with his Unit from Darwin for Ambon. Bombardier Matthews was reported Missing on 17 April 1942, and confirmed captured by the Japanese and a PoW at Ambon Camp on 2 June 1942. Bombardier Matthews was killed in Ambon PoW Camp (reportedly one of the bloodiest of the Japanese PoW camps - Max Gilbert) during an Allied bombing raid.
Lindsay was born in Peak Hill, NSW in 1906, fourth of ten children of Sydney Richard Matthews (b1882 in Obley via Molong, NSW) and Emily Mary Clarissa Tyler (b1882 in Cobar, NSW). Sydney and Emily (both aged 17 years) married in 1900 in Peak Hill, where they settled and raised their family, and Sydney was a Commission Agent and an Auctioneer (partner of the firm Messrs Roache & Matthews). By 1930 Sydney and Emily had settled in Sydney, where Sydney worked as a Clerk until his death in 1943.
Lindsay worked in Peak Hill as a Labourer, and in 1926 in Dubbo NSW married Ruby Evelyn Radford (b1908 in Yanac, Victoria). Following their Divorce in 1935, both remarried - Lindsay in 1936 in Sydney to Mabel (May) Laura Irene Segerstrom (b1906 in Sydney, NSW). Lindsay and May settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Lindsay was working as a Lorry Driver and Machine Assembler when he enlisted in the AIF. By 1943, May had moved to Peak Hill, NSW, where she died in 1979.
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