Matheson, Frederick Hugh

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Bragg,Frederick Edmund Hugh Allen Matheson,

Service ServiceNumber Number1494 352 Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Killed in Action 24th July 1916 Gallipoli Peninsula France

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NAME

Matheson, Frederick Hugh

SERVICE NO

352

UNIT

3rd Battalion/

RANK

Sergeant

AGE at Enlistment

20 yrs 6 mths

PLACE OF BIRTH

Brisbane, Qld

ADDRESS OCCUPATION

Station Hand

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

20 Aug 1914

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT PREVIOUS SERVICE

Sydney, NSW

NEXT OF KIN

Father;- Hugh Matheson, “Wingello”, Gosford, NSW/ Sept 1915-“Iona” Poultry Farm, Old Guilford.

Mrs B Matheson (Aug 1922) Lane St {late First St} Wentworthville.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Height-5’ 10½”. Weight-11 st.6lbs. Chest-35 Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Blue. Hair-Fair.

Birthmark on outside of L/Thigh.

Presbyterian

RELIGION

12 mths Snr Cadets

EMBARKED DISEMBARKED NOTES

Crime;- 9 Jul 1915-Gallipoli-failing to comply with a standing order.

WOUNDED/ILLNESS

7 Aug 1915- Gallipoli-Lone Pine- GSW Face transf to Cairo.

DIED

24 Jul 1916- Shell explosion, hit in the forehead by shrapnel another explosion collapsing trench & burying him.

Where he died in trench at Pozieres- body was not removed

BURIED MEDALS

1914-15 Star-9296, British War Medal-3018, Victory Medal-3018. Memorial Plaque & Scroll -301520.

DEPENDANTS PERSONAL EFFECTS

Photo/ Muffler, 2 Brushes in Case, notebook, scarf, knife, money armlet/

WILL

Beneficiary;- Father

CORRESPONDENCE

Father/ Commonwealth Savings Bank/

Gosford Times 27th August 1915 Word has just been received that Fred Matheson, late of Wingello Farm, Gosford, has been wounded at the Dardenalles, being struck in the eye with a piece of shrapnel or bullet.

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