MATTHEWS, Henry Thomas
| Service Number: | 446 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 2 February 1879 |
| Home Town: | New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 446, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 446, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 21 Dec 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 446, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 112, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Wilcannia arriving Brisbane 15 Dec 1901, discharged 21 Dec 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Henry Thomas Matthews enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father R. Matthews, Old Racecourse Rd, New Farm. In the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is recorded as his father Richard Matthews.
Henry Thomas Matthews was born on 2 Feb 1879 in Queensland, a son to George Richard Matthews and Mary Rosina Matthews (nee Winterburn). He married Lily Taylor on 23 Dec 1903 at New Farm, Brisbane and they had one child while living in Brisbane.
At some point after 1904 they relocated to Sydney, NSW. where they divorced in 1921. His mother passed in Brisbane in 1930 and in a notice for the distribution of her real estate appearing in the Daily Standard, 2 Feb 1931, her son Henry Thomas Matthews was noted as living at Glebe Point, Sydney.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 502; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 7; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 112).
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