Background
Perera-Matić was born in Vela Luka on July 2, 1912.
Perera-Matić was born in Vela Luka on July 2, 1912.
He finished elementary and high school in Vela Luka, and Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb.
In 1937, he was employed as Obrovac county physician. During World World War II, in 1941, he was arrested together with his father David for being Jewish. Because of him being physician, Perera-Matić and his father were released.
Perera-Matić was stationed at mountain Dinara.
There he organized the partisan clinic as the first organized military medical unit in Dalmatia. Later he managed the hospital in Glamoč.
During the Fourth Enemy Offensive, Perera-Matić was ambulance officer of the 5th. Montenegrin proletarian brigade.
He was wounded in his leg during the Fifth Enemy Offensive.
After recovery, Perera-Matić returned to Dalmatia where he was ambulance officer of the 8th. Dalmatia corporations On January 18, 1944 he attended the meeting of military doctors on island Visiting Perera-Matić was killed on January 24, 1944 in Podgradina when on his way to inspect the 20th division in Bitelići, near Hrvace.
While going up the hill, the grenade hit him in the head and tore both of his legs.
With him, nurse Gorka Katalinić was also killed.