Donald George Melbourne MATHESON

Service Number:	WX11483
Enlisted:	9 April 1941
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	7th Division Cavalry Regiment
Born:	Waiki, New Zealand, 19 July 1904
Home Town:	Wiluna, Wiluna, Western Australia
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Mines Superintendent
Died:	Killed in Action, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 30 January 1944, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea A3. F. 4.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, East Perth Department of the Minister for Mines Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, WX11483
9 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, WX11483
30 Jan 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, WX11483, 7th Division Cavalry Regiment, 2nd/7th Cavalry Commando Regiment

Newspaper article about Donald

LIEUT-COL. MATHES0N
KILLED IN ACTION
BRILLIANT SOLDIER DEAD

Melbourne, February 10.

Lieut-Colonel D. G. Matlieson, M.C., M.M. and D.S.C. (American) is reported

to have been killed in action on January 30th

A digger of the last war at the age of thirteen years he saw service

In this war he was a leader in New Caledonia last year

Lieut.-Colonel Matheson was awarded the D.S.C. by President Roosevelt for
extraordinary heroism on Guadalcanal.

Brigadier-General Sebree once said of him—"No man on this island has contributed more to our victory than Matheson; no one has done more to
give us a high regard for the Australian man."

Lieut-Colonel Matheson was born in New Zealand.
He was a mining engineer before the war, and at onetime was superintendent of the Wiluna mines. He leave a widow, who is living in Melbourne.

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