SCOTT, Harry Mckenna
| Service Number: | VX37328 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 19 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 11 November 1906 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Guillotine Operator |
| Died: | Presumed Killed in action, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 20 February 1942, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Ambon Memorial, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia Panel 2 |
| Memorials: | Ambon Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Harry Scott McKenna (Service No:VX37328) enlisted in the Australian Army on 19 July 1940. He was attached to 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion when he embarked for Ambon, Indonesia on 13 December 1941. On 20 April 1942 Staff Sergeant Scott was pronounced Missing and on 27 March 1946 'for Official Purposes Presumed Dead' (National Archives Australia).
Born in 1906 in Mildura Victoria, Harry was the youngest of two children of Frederick William Scott (b1868 in Ararat, Victoria) and Lillian Maud Hendy (b1875 in Melbourne, Victoria). Frederick (a Newsagent) and Lillian married in 1897 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled in Mildura where Frederick was a Compositor and Newsagent. In the 1920s the family moved to Sunshine in Corio, Victoria where Frederick was a Printer before moving to Melbourne by the early 1940s.
Harry worked as a Salesman in Sunshine, Corio, Victoia and in 1928 married Doris May Landers (b1906 in Tower Hill, Victoria). In the mid 1930s Harry and Doris moved to Melbourne where Harry worked as a Salesman and Guillotine Operator before enlisting in the Army in 1940. He was MiA in Ambon in February 1942.
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