Archibald SCOTT MID

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Service Number:	764
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:	Fiitter & Turner prev farmer
Died:	Keswick Military Hospital South Australia, 13 March 1930, aged 33 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section)
Memorials:

7 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 764, 9th Light Horse Regiment
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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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.