MATTHEWS, Neville
| Service Number: | NX82974 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 14 August 1917 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Drink Waiter |
| Died: | Lightning strike whilst on active duty, Adelaide River, Northern territory, AUstralia, 28 December 1942, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT Australian War Memorial |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX82974 | |
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| 8 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX82974 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Private Neville Matthews NX82974 of AIF 12 Division Workshops, Australian Army Ordnance Corps
Son of Sidney Richard and Emily Mary Clarissa Matthews
Husband of Florence Letitia Matthews of Randwick, NSW
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Neville Matthews (Service No:NX82974) served in the AIF with 12 Divisional Ordnance Workshops from 8 January 1942 to 28 December 1942. Private Matthews was on active duty at Adeliade River, Northern Territory when he was killed by a lightning strike. Private Matthews was the youngest of five brothers - Lindsay, Jack, Tom and D'arcy - who served in WWII.
The youngest of ten children, Neville was born in Peak Hill, NSW in 1917 to Sidney Richard Matthews (b1882 at Obley via Molong, NSW) and Emily Mary Clarissa Tyler (b1882 in Cobar, NSW). Sidney and Emily (both 17 years of age) married in 1900 in Peak Hill, where they settled and raised their family, and Sidney was an Auctioneer (partner in the firm Messrs Roache and Matthews). By 1930 they had settled in Sydney, where Sidney worked as a Clerk until his death in 1943.
Neville worked as a Farm Labourer, and in 1938 in Sydney, he married Florence (Letty) Letitia Abbott (b1918 in Sydney, NSW). Neville and Letty settled in Sydney, where Neville was working as a Drink Waiter when he enlisted in the AIF in January 1942. Following Neville's death in December 1942, Letty lived in Sydney, where she raised their daughter. Letty died in 1972.
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