SCOTT, Reginald Wunderley
| Service Numbers: | S37121, SX38020, 443013 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 August 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia, 27 April 1922 |
| Home Town: | Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 17 October 2012, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Aug 1943: | Involvement Sapper, SX38020 | |
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| 30 Aug 1943: | Involvement Sapper, S37121 | |
| 30 Aug 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX38020 | |
| 30 Aug 1943: | Enlisted East Oakleigh, VIC | |
| 30 Apr 1944: | Discharged | |
| 1 May 1944: | Involvement 443013 | |
| 1 May 1944: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 1 May 1944: | Enlisted 443013 | |
| 19 Jan 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of John Clarence Scott and Elder Alvera Alma Fisher(Fischer) of Mt Barker, South Australia.
When Reginald was 12 years old his mother died and his father died 10 days afterwards leaving Reginald and his siblings orphaned
Brother of Irene Marjorie Patricia Scott, Dudley Desmond Scott, John Percy Scott, Hazel Dawn Scott and Tom Russell Scott
As a young boy Reginald showed great talent as an artist but despite persistent urgings he refused to study Art preferring to doing it for his own enjoyment.
He served in the Militia (Army) before becoming regular Army. However he decided that the Army was not for him so he joined the RAAF. it was here that he met his wife, Val, who was an Army Nurse.
After the war Val and Reg went to live on a Soldier Settlement property on the Coles-Spence Road not far from Lucindale in the Lower South East of South Australia.
It was while he was on the property that he came close to losing his life on two occasions. The first was when a cow kicked his arm that was carrying a knife severing the main artery in his arm. My father rushed him into the Naracoorte Hospital as he went across the railway crossing at Naracoorte they were travelling at about 120mph and Dad noticed the Police car sitting there but ignored it and continued on at the same hectic speed.When they arrived at the hospital Reg was rambling and making no sense due to a huge blood loss.
With Reg safely in hospital Dad went back to the main street. Police happened to see him and said 'I hope your passenger was as badly hurt as your speed suggested'.
The second time that Reg flirted with death on the farm was late one night when he went out to feed his ferrets. He could feel something hitting his trousers thinking it was one of the ferrets he shone the torch down to find that he was standing on a tiger snake and it was striking his trousers at the knee. The only thing that saved Reg was the fact that he had been shearing and the trousers he was wearing had double thickness at the knees.
After he retired from the farm he and his family he moved to the Hackham where he and Val lived till they both passed away.