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SCOTT, Archibald
| Service Number: | 764 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | North Kensington South Australia, 4 April 1896 |
| Home Town: | Kensington, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boundary Rider |
| Died: | Hodgkinson's Disease, Keswick Military Hospital South Australia, 13 March 1930, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 8 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Pera embarkation_ship_number: A4 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli | |
| 10 Apr 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine - Light Horse and AFC Operations | |
| 19 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Egypt and Palestine - Light Horse and AFC Operations, Bullet wound chest, neck and back | |
| 11 Jul 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 1 Oct 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Wounded Medically Unfit | |
| 15 Jan 1918: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Egypt and Palestine - Light Horse and AFC Operations, Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette', second Supplement, No. 30480 (15 January 1918); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 76 (23 May 1918). |
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Archibald Scott (1897-1930)
Born in Adelaide in 1897
Served at Gallipoli landing on the morning of the Attack at Lone Pine
Mentioned in Despatches by General Allenby in relation 'to military operations under his command' for actions in April 1917 in Palestine.
Died at Keswick Military Hospital in 1930 from Hodgkinson's Disease
Buried West Terrace Cemetery.
His son Ian MacDonald Scott served in WW2 as RAAF Aircrew (pilot). Killed in action 17 Dec 1943 with No. 97 Squadron.
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
'A dinkum Digger and patient war sufferer' (Trove - Burra Record: 1930), Private Archibald Scott (Service No:764) served in the AIF with 9th Light Horse Regiment from 7 December 1914 to 1 October 1917. Private Scott served at Gallipoli, and was WiA at Gaza on 19 April 1917 - GSW to neck and chest. Private Scott embarked from Suez for Melbourne on 12 July 1917 on board the Port Sydney, and was Discharged on 1 October 1917 (Medically Unfit).Private Scott was awarded a MiD in 1918 (London Gazette). Son Ian (RAAF) was KiA in WWII.
Archie (Archibald William) was born in Kensington, Adelaide, South Australia in 1896, third of seven children of William Scott (b1869 in Roxburgshire, Scotland) and Louisa Helps (b1862 at Gawler Plains, South Australia). William was a Blacksmith in 1882 when he arrived in Port Adelaide on board the Corona. William and Louisa married in 1881 in Alberton, South Australia. The couple settled in Kensington, where they raised their family.
Archie was working as a Boundary Rider in Kensington, South Australia in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, in 1920 at Black Rock via Ororroo, Archie married Kate Williams (b1894 in Kadina, South Australia). Archie and Kate were amongst the earliest settlers on the Springbank Estate at Keswick, and Archie was a Farmer with three children when he died in 1930. Kate died in 1964.
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