Lance Sergeant R. E. C. Mathieson, MM; born Westport, 23 Jul 1919; truck driver; deceased. (Source: Ross, A. 23 Battalion. p.452.)

'C Company had a somewhat similar experience to B's. Profiting by the battalion's earlier experience, the company by-passed a tank which was troubling it and left it to the oncoming tanks. Lance-Sergeant Reg Edmondson distinguished himself in wiping out a troublesome machine-gun post at a time when the momentum of the attack appeared likely to be lost. Corporal Mathieson, who had been particularly active in the operations of the previous night, again showed himself to be aggressive in attack. ‘His courage … did much to maintain the high morale and fighting spirit that enabled the company to successfully withstand the determined enemy counter-attacks at a most critical stage of the general advance,’ states the citation for Mathieson's MM.' (Source: Ross, A. 23 Battalion. p. 452.) AWMM