William Rupert (Snowy) SCOTT

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SCOTT, William Rupert

Service Number:	29
Enlisted:	14 June 1915, RAGA 2 yrs, 2 mo
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	36th Heavy Artillery Group
Born:	Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, 25 July 1887
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Shell concussion, Belgium, 30 September 1917, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	The Huts Cemetery, Dickebusch, Belgium The Huts Cemetery (Plot VIII, Row D, Grave No. 10), Dickebusch, Belgium, The Huts Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Narrabri and District Soldiers' Memorial Clock Tower, Thursday Island Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

14 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 29, Siege Artillery Brigade, RAGA 2 yrs, 2 mo
17 Jul 1915:	Involvement Gunner, 29, Siege Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915:	Embarked Gunner, 29, Siege Artillery Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
11 Feb 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 36th Heavy Artillery Group
30 Sep 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 29, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 29 awm_unit: 36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-09-30

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Damian Bester,
Tasmania – The Great War 1914-1918

Gnr William Rupert 'Snowy' Scott

This image turned up in a box of unidentified Mercury newspaper negatives from the 1930s. Written across the bottom, partly obscured, was "Scott and I walked 600 miles, from Thursday Island to Cooktown to enlist in the AIF." Their story was published in the Mercury in 1934, at which time the writer of that note, Sergeant H.T. Black, was stationed in Hobart. The story, as published, was that in August 1914 the pair were on Thursday Island as garrison gunners. Refused permission to enlist for service overseas, they deserted and set off to Cooktown to join up. Through various misfortunes, they walked closer to 1000km (600 miles) than the actual 600km distance between the two points, and were arrested and court martialed for their trouble. Pardoned, they were able to enlist. "Snowy" Scott lost his life at Ypres, but Black survived the war and found himself living in Tasmania. Another of the amazing stories of World War I.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29168881

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