Aenger
Vincent
Mathieson
Born in Nirranda, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Mary McMaster (Mathieson) Le Couteur, John Archibald Mathieson, Ethel Clara (Mathieson) Simpson, Donald Ian Hamilton Mathieson, Douglas Haig Mathieson, Anne Jean Mathieson and Violet Nellie Lorraine Mathieson
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 31
in At Sea
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Jun 2014
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Biography
Aenger Mathieson was a Prisoner of War during World War II.
Aenger Mathieson died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.
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World War Two
Aenger Vincent Mathieson was born in 1910 in Nirranda, Victoria, Australia[1]. He was the son of Aenger Mathieson and Ethel Williams.
Aenger was a butcher in civilian life. He had fair hair and blue eyes.
He served in the Australian Army during WW2,[2][3] enlisting at Warnambool, VIC on 13 Jul 1940 taken on strength with the 2/22nd Bn as VX 43006. He embarked for Rabaul from Melbourne on 10 Apr 1941 and disembarked on 26 Apr 1941. When the Japanese invaded New Britain in Jan 1942, he was captured in the vicinity of the Warangoi River and was taken prisoner. He subsequently died at sea when the transport ship (Montevideo Maru) was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines.
Aenger died at sea, but his name is listed on the Rabaul War Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea[4] and on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.[5]
Historical Information
Between 1884 and 1914, New Britain was known as New Pomerania and part of German New Guinea. On the 11th September 1914, in one of Australia's first actions of the 1914-18 war, its troops seized the German wireless station at Bitapaka near Rabaul. After the war, the island became part of the Territory of New Guinea, which was an Australian mandated territory. The site of the wireless station later became the War Cemetery.
In January 1942, after three weeks of air bombardment, Rabaul was attacked by the Japanese from the sea, and overwhelming odds soon broke the defence. It is estimated that against the original garrison of 1,400 the Japanese landed 17,000 men in the immediate vicinity of Rabaul. The defenders split into small groups and while some 400 managed to escape by sea a great number were killed or captured. Of the latter, some 160 were murdered by the Japanese near Tol in February, whilst most of the remainder, plus some 200 civilians, were drowned when the ship, the Montevideo Maru, was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines whilst moving them to the Hainan. Nevertheless a number of the original garrison ran the gauntlet of the Japanese patrol and reached Australian territory in small vessels, overlooked when the Japanese commander sent destroyers steaming up and down the coast smashing all the boats to be found.
Sources
- ↑ Birth, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria Online Registry. Event: births; Registration number 5472 / 1910; Family name: MATHIESON; Given name(s) Aenger Vincent; Place of event: NIRRANDA, VIC, Australia; Mother's name Ethel Clara WILLIAMS; Father's Name: Aenger Vincent. https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history
- ↑ WW2 AIF Service record - National Archives of Australia - MATHIESON AINGER VINCENT : Service Number - VX43006 : Date of birth - 15 Dec 1910 : Place of birth - NARANDA VIC : Place of enlistment - CAULFIELD VIC : Next of Kin - MATHIESON E - http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6134716
- ↑ Australian Government: Department of Veterans' Affairs. Nominal Roll - World War Two Service. https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=452885&c=WW2
- ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery And Memorial, Papua New Guinea https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2616022/aenger-vincent-mathieson/
- ↑ Roll of Honour - Australian War Memorial - http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1686103/
See also:
- Virtual War Memorial Australia: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/637977
- The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial: https://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/prisoners-of-war/mathieson-ainger-vincent/
Acknowledgement
Peter Knowles, Sunday, June 22, 2014.
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