Percy James SCOTT

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SCOTT, Percy James

Service Number:	4599
Enlisted:	19 October 1915, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stratham, Western Australia, October 1889
Home Town:	Stratham, Western Australia
Schooling:	Stratham Public School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Died of Illness (pneumonia), Etaples, France, 5 May 1916
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Capel War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial

World War 1 Service

19 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4599, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
12 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4599, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
12 Feb 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4599, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Youngest of two brothers who died in WWI, Private Percy James Scott (Service No:4599) enlisted in the AIF on 19 October 1915, and was attached to 11th Battalion 14th Reinforcements when he embarked with his brother (Private Douglas Proctor Scott; Service No:4598) from Fremantle for Marseilles, France via Suez on 12 February 1916 on board HMAT A28 Militades. Private Scott was hospitalised with Influenza, and died of illness on 5 May 1916 - brother Douglas was KiA on 25 July 1916.

Percy was born in Minninup via Stratham, Western Australia in 1889, fourth of nine children of William Proctor Scott (b1856 in Eelup via Bunbury, Western Australia) and his first wife Lavinia Susannah Higgins (b1856 at Springfield via Capel, Western Australia). William and Lavinia married in 1881 in Picton, and settled at Minninup via Stratham, where they raised their family and William was a Farmer. Following Lavinia's death in 1916, William remarried.

Percy was a Farmer at Minninup via Stratham when he enlisted, with older brother Douglas, in the AIF in 1915.

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