SCOTT, Walter Russell
| Service Number: | WX5295 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia , 4 June 1918 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine cleaner |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 14 September 1992, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Waroona Hamel RSL Honour Board |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5295, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jan 1941: | Embarked from Fremantle; disembarked in the Middle East on 2 Feb 1941 | |
| 27 Jul 1942: | Imprisoned Siege of Tobruk, missing in action; officially reported POW 28 Oct 1942; interned Camps 57 and 106; escaped ex Switzerland 24 Oct 1944 | |
| 16 Dec 1944: | Embarked ; disembarked Melbourne, Australia on 29 Dec 1944; by train to Western Australia, arriving 3 Jan 1945 | |
| 11 Apr 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5295, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Walter was known by his middle name, Russell. He was the younger of two sons of William and Ada SCOTT. His brother, Thomas, also served in WW2, in the RAAF (45737).
Russell was captured at Ruin Ridge at Alamein. He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Russell was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
His father, William, died in May 1942 at age 64 and did not live to see his son return safely home to Western Australia in 1945.
Within weeks of his arrival, Russell's engagement was announced to Anita 'Nita' Joan ABBOTT, but they did not marry. In March 1949, he married Joan Asquith MORTON in Highgate. He died in 1992 at age 74.
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