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MATZ, John Frederick William
Service Number: | 3352 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Mason |
Memorials: | Freeling Boer War, Boxer Rebellion and WW1 Memorial Panel, Freeling WW1 Pictorial Honour Roll, Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Gawler War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 3352, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: '' | |
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27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 3352, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Malakuta, Adelaide |
John Frederick William Matz
Name: John Frederick William Matz
Service Number: 335
Place of Birth: Sheoak Log
Date of Birth: 2 March 1884
Place of Enlistment: Adelaide
Date of Enlistment: 31 March 1916
Age at Enlistment: 32 years
Next of Kin: Mother – Earnstina Matz
Occupation: Baker
Religion: Church of England
Rank: Private 32nd Battalion
John was the son of Frederich and Johanna Matz nee [Qurschnong]. John left
Adelaide with his unit on board the Malakuta on 27 June 1916. Shortly after
being sent to France on 11 November, he was hospitalised at Etaples with
pleurisy on 8 December and was unable to return to his unit until 6 April 1917.
A week later John was treated for defective vision. At the end of the war he
was sent home on the Port Lyttleton on 10 June 1919, reaching Australia on 5
August and was discharged on 21 September.
John died in November 1937 and was buried in the Willaston Cemetery in the
same plot as his father, but this information is not included in the headstone
details as the Matz family failed to update it, according to the Gawler Council
Willaston Cemetery records.
Submitted 19 October 2023 by christopher collins