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Gilbert Walter Rennie MATTHEWS

Regimental number2478
Place of birthTipperally, England
Place of birthTipperary, New South Wales
SchoolTaplow Grammar School, England
Age on arrival in Australia16
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationLabourer
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23
Next of kinSister, Mrs. E. Claney, Churchill Cottage, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland
Previous military serviceServed in the English Territorial Forces
Enlistment date26 May 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name3rd Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/20/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on 14 July 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll3rd Battalion
FateDied of disease 15 February 1919
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Age at death28
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialTidworth Military Cemetery (Row A, Grave No. 76), North Tidworth, Wiltshire
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
37
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Joseph and Annie MATTHEWS; husband of Alice MATTHEWS, "Lilybrae", Cammeray Road, Folly Point, North Sydney

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