Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: Percy John Matta was born on 4 September 1894, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom as the son of Thomas Josper and Martha Matta. He had at least 1 son with Ellen Beatrice Letourneau. He immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1923. He died on 30 September 1955, in Victoria Park, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 61, and was buried in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
Committed suicide. Died in Australia.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 