PRIVATE F. MATTHEWS.

Private Frank Matthews, whose name appears in the list of wounded, lived at No. 4 Hudson street, Moonee Ponds. He is in the 7th Battalion, Machine Gun Section.  He is 23 years of age, a fine, steady young fellow, one of the first to enlist, and was previously employed by Mr. F. F. Hurry, butcher, Moonee Ponds, for the past 10 years. He has many friends in Moonee Ponds, Who deeply regret that his name appears in the list of wounded.

Tuesday 11 May 1915
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Essendon Gazette 17 June 1915

Private Frank Matthews writes from 2nd General Hospital, Mena Camp, Cairo, under date 5/5/l5. -

"I was wounded in the leg by a piece of shrapnel; but expect soon to be back to take revenge for being put out of the fight. so early. I can hardly realize that I've been under fire. We landed at 6 am on 25th April- I was hit at 9.30 and carried to the hospital ship at 12. pm. Our boys were brave, cool and determined. Our section was among the first to land, and the Turks greeted us with a hail of lead. A shrapnel burst near us and smashed our oars;  but not a man was hit. Some of the obstacles we had to get through were pits dug underneath the water filled with barbed wire and spikes; also mines.  We managed to get ashore safely, and the boys fixed bayonets and charged up the hill and drove the Turks out. During the charge, I got hit in the leg, and was thus put out of the fun."