Lionel Matthews
Lionel Colin Matthews GC, MC (15 August 1912 – 2 March 1944) was an Australian Army Signals Corps officer awarded the George Cross in recognition of gallant and distinguished services whilst a prisoner-of-war in Japanese hands during the Second World War.
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“I was supposed to retire when I was seventy-two years old, but I was seventy-seven when I retired. On my seventy-sixth birthday a lady had triplets. It was quite a birthday present.”
—Josephine Riley Matthews (b. 1897)