SCOTT, Alan Bruce
| Service Number: | 3685 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Norwood War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3685, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3685, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3685, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3685, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Modbury High School
Alan Bruce Scott was born in 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales. Scott was a motor mechanic before he enlisted in the war, which provided him with experience in mechanics he used in the war. Scott had not had any previous military service on his record. The only officially known family member was his father, George Scott. He lived on Frenchiman’s Road in Randwick, New South Wales before joining the war. Randwick, being only 36 square kilometers, is a small town just 6 kilometers from The Sydney central business district.
Scott enlisted in the war on the 6th of March 1916. He embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A69 Warilda on the 22nd of May 1916. He started as a sapper, at the Tunneling Company 4, Headquarters 1. This means that he did several military engineering tasks. These could include Demolitions, building bridges, breaching fortifications, clearing or laying minefields, and road and airfield repair and construction. He was involved in the battle of hill 60, which played a key part in the battle of Messines. He also assisted at Viny Ridge and multiple other small battlegrounds. By the end of the war, he was a Second Lieutenant in the same unit.
He died on the 23rd of December 1917. Scott is featured on the Norwood War Memorial, along with 27 other soldiers.
He was awarded three medals: The 1914/15 Star- which was ‘awarded to officers of British Imperial Forces who saw service in any theatre of war against the Central Powers’-, the Victory medal- given in 1919 ‘to commemorate the victory of the Allied Forces over the Central Powers’- and the British War Medal- which was given to men and soldiers who served in the first world war.