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Spr. Frederick George Gladstone Matthews
Australian Imperial Forces 4th Field Coy. Australian Engineers
from:Melbourne, Australia
George Matthews was my grandfather. He signed up on 24th of July 1915 and went to Egypt until he was deployed by ship to Marseilles and by train to the Somme. He was injured at Bazentin le Grand on 4th of February 1917 and moved from Mametz Wood (Melbourne Camp) Dressing Station to Edgehill (although diary says Hedge Hill) near Albert, then onto Abbeville, then Rouen and finally to Harefield in the UK.
George had just been out of killing range of a bomb attack but the shrapnel shattered his left knee cap, fractured his femur and left him with permanent hearing loss. He did however return home, departing on 22nd of July 1917 and arrived in Melbourne on 24th of September 1917.
I am presently typing the contents of his second diary (the first was lost when sent home to a relative) and collecting additional information to form a history for my family. He died of old age in 1973 aged 82.

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