I have just been notified by Dave Mathews daughter that he died in a car accident on Sunday 4th May 2014.
Dave joined Nirimba from Victor Harbour SA on 4 July 1977.
He was a chippy.

REST in PEACE mate.

The funeral will be on Tuesday 13th at 2pm.

The address is
Parsons Funerals
4 princes Hwy
Dapto NSW

Hi Allan...

I don't have any record of a 'Dave Mathews' in the July 1977 Intake, nor a few Intakes either side of that one...

If you can get us some more/ correct information, we'll be happy to give Dave a topic of his own, and the send off he deserves...

If it's the Dave Mathews that I am thinking of he was one hell of a nice guy. Tall Skinny blonde Guy. Well in '86 anyway at the time he was a PO
Worked for me and probably PC Beard at Cerberus in the chippies shop. An absolute perfectionist. I remember that he came from SA and at the time was livin off base at Somers.
Des Kingston was there at the at time as well.

RIP Dave

I just checked the intake list for July 1977 and noticed his name was not there. I can confirm he was definitely a member of the July 77 intake.
As far as my memory serves me he served in Stalwart, Cerberus, Creswell and commissioned Melbourne (FFG 05)

Al