Robert (Bob) SCOTT

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Service Number:	DX28
Enlisted:	20 October 1939
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/6th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 8 November 1910
Home Town:	Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Ipswich State School, , Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	School Teacher
Died:	Illness whilst a Prisoner of the Japanese , Burma, 15 February 1944, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) Grave 8A. B. 17. Robert actually died at 1745 Hours on 23 February 1944 at the Hospital in 105 KILO Camp, Aungganaung, Burma as a P.O.W No. 1976. He died of Pellagra and Malaria. All of the revenant documents are posted on his Profile on Ancestry in the TheClarsonSisters Family Tree. He was buried that day at 105 KILO Cemetery, Service conducted by Chaplain Frederick Bashford of Anderson Force in Grave No 117. Post War his remains were moved to his final resting Place at THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY in Grave No. A8. B.17
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Darwin War Memorial

20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Private, DX28, Darwin, Northern Territory
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, DX28
2 Feb 1941:	Promoted Sergeant
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore
15 Feb 1944:	Involvement Sergeant, DX28, 2nd/6th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Prisoners of War

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