SCOTT, Alexander Charles
| Service Number: | 188 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, 29th LH |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Fairfield, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Borre British Cemetery Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 24 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 188, 4th Light Horse Regiment, 29th LH | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 188, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 188, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 14 Jun 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Nov 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Infantry Battalion |
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From How We Served
The private commemoration for; - 188/188a Corporal Alexander Charles Scott of Fairfield, Victoria who prior to enlisting for War Service on the 18th of August 1914 had been employed as a carpenter, and was allocated to the 4th Light Horse Regiment 1st AIF.
Alexander departed for Egypt and further training on the 19th of October with the First Australian Contingent. Alexander was with his Regiment when it was committed to the Gallipoli campaign, where he arrived in the trenches on the 15th of May 1915, and he would remain on duty until he was evacuated sick to Egypt on the 1st of September, suffering from dysentery.
By the end of the Gallipoli campaign, Alexander re-joined his Regiment in Egypt on the 2nd of January 1916, and shortly afterwards then transferred over to the 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion, who he was taken on strength with in mid-March. With his new Unit Alexander was embarked for France, arriving on the 30th of March.
On the 14th of June 1917, Alexander was formally taken on strength with the 5th Battalion, with whom he would remain on duty with in the trenches of France and Flanders continuously until he was temporarily attached to the 2nd Training Battalion from the 25th of November, and then was granted Furlough to England on the 25th of January 1918.
By the 11th of February Alexander had re-joined his Unit in the field, and aside time spent at a Bombing School from the 23rd of February until the 13th of March, he would remain on duty in the trenches. On the 25th of April (ANZAC Day) 1918, Alexander was on a ration fatigue party which came under enemy shelf fire, and during this he received serious shrapnel wounds to his feet and legs.
Alexander succumbed to these injuries he had received, on the same day, and received a formal burial. To this day Alexander now rests within Borre British Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord Pas de Calais, France.
Back home in Australia, the supreme sacrifice made by Corporal Alexander Scott during the ‘Great War’ was privately commemorated at the Scott family’s collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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