SCOTT, John Warrington
| Service Number: | 1705 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 11th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, 25 February 1890 |
| Home Town: | Werrington, Penrith Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hobart State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Fruit Salesman |
| Died: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 1953, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat (Old) General Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1705, Camel Corps | |
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| 12 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 1705, Camel Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 1705, Camel Corps, HMAT Medic, Sydney | |
| 7 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Trooper, 1705, 11th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Port Said for England on board HT Malwa | |
| 7 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Trooper, 1705, 11th Light Horse Regiment, embarked England for Sydney on board HT Chemnitz | |
| 24 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1705, 11th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal John Warrington Scott (Service No:1705) enlisted in the AIF in New South Wales on 18 October 1916, and was attached to 1st Anzac Battalion Imperial Camel Corps on 12 December 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Palestine (via Melbourne) on board HMAT A7 Medic. On 17 February 1918 he was promoted to Lance Corporal, attached to 11th Light Horse Regiment. L/Corporal Scott embarked from Port Said on 7 May 1919 on board HT Malwa for leave in England before embarking for Sydney on 7 July 1919 on board HT Chemnitz. L/Coproral scott was attached to 11th Light Horse Regiment at Discharge in Hobart, Tasmania on 24 September 1919.
John was born in Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland in 1890, second of four children of John Newton Scott (b1864 in Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland) and Mary Nesbitt Nelson (b1863 in Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland). John Snr (a Grocer) and Mary (a Domestic Servant) married in Edinburgh in 1887, and were living in Selkirk, where John was a Grocer, when they immigrated in 1901. The family arrived in Hobart, Tasmania on board the Tongariro, and settled there, where John was a Fruit Merchant - his three sons joined him in that trade. At the end of WWI, John Snr and Mary moved to Adelaide, then in the late 1920s to Ballarat before settling in Melbourne - John Snr was a Grocer.
John started work in Hobert as a Fruit Salesman, and by 1915 was working as a Fruit Salesman at the City Fruit Markets in Werrington via Penrith, New South Wales. Following his Discharge from the Army, John moved with his parents to Adelaide, South Australia where, in 1920 he married Nellie May Oates (b1896 in Ballarat, Victoria) - Nellie was a Dressmaker in Ballarat. By 1925 John and Nellie had settled in Ballarat, where they raised their family and John was a Mill Worker and Railway Employee until his death in 1953. Nellie died in 1988.
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