SCOTT, Douglas Proctor
| Service Number: | 4598 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 October 1915, Perth, Western Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Capel, West Australia, November 1883 |
| Home Town: | Stratham, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Stratham State School, West Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Capel War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4598, Perth, Western Australia | |
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| 12 Feb 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4598, 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, 4598, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4598, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
The eldest of two brothers KiA in WWI, Private Douglas Proctor Scott (Service No:4598) enlisted in the AIF on 26 October 1915, and was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion 14th Reinforcements on 12 February 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Suez, en route for Marseilles. Private Scott was hospitalised in Etaples in May 1916 with Influenza, and on 25 July 1916 was KiA at Pozieres. H L Yates (Service No:3515) reported 'Douglas Scott was seen lying wounded in the leg. He was so placed that he was almost certain to have been blown up by a shell and you know how heavily shelled we were in that spot. That would have been on the night of July 22nd or morning of July 23rd many men would be buried without being identified' (AWM; Red Cross Files). Captain Scott 11th Battalion stated ' On 24th July we were making a second big attack on the enemy position at Contalmaison, Pozieres front. We were advancing rapidly when the enemy put up barrage and landed some high explosive shells amongst us. A number of men were killed instantly. Scott being amonst them. His disc and papers were handed in and these completely identified him. Instructions were given by me that these men should be buried in a shell hole near at hand. Scott came over from Australia with 14th Reinforcements of 11th Battalion' (AWM: Red Cross Files). To the dismay of his family, Private Scott's effects were not returned (NAA).
Second of nine children, Douglas was born in Minninup via Stratham, Western Australia in 1883 to William Proctor Scott (b1856 at Eelup via Bunbury, Western Australia) and his first wife Lavinia Susannah Higgins (b1856 at Springfield via Capel, Western Australia). William (a Farmer) and Lavinia married in 1881 in Picton, and settled at Roseland in Capel, where they raised their family and William was a Farmer. Following Lavinia's death in 1916, William remarried.
Douglas was a Farmer at Stratham in Capel when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915.
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