William Robert James SCOTT

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SCOTT, William Robert James

Service Number:	1942
Enlisted:	25 April 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newcastle, England, April 1882
Home Town:	Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	War Service related , Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia , 14 May 1920
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Sandgate Cemetery, ANGLICAN 1-74. 39 - given a military funeral
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

25 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1942, 34th Infantry Battalion
2 Aug 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1942, 34th Infantry Battalion, MD
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, 1942, 34th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

99 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 16th May 1920, Private William Robert James Scott, 34th Battalion, labourer from Bourke Street, Carrington, New South Wales, was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 36. ANGLICAN 1-74. 39.

Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 18th June 1883 to Robert and Caroline Scott and husband of Rachel Maud Scott nee Christensen, married 1905, died?, William enlisted April 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital December 1916 with influenza, January 1917 with asthma, William was invalided home May 1917.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134869582

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134856085

Mr Scott, father of 4, died at the Newcastle Hospital on the 14th May 1920, and was accorded a military funeral.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138833401

Mrs Scott wrote a letter to the authorities October 1920 requesting a headstone for her deceased husband, and this was granted.

William’s name has been listed on the Roll of Honour, but no Memorial Scroll was issued to his wife and no Roll of Honour circular was submitted.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1663644/

William’s name has been inscribed on the Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honor, Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Carrington Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor (photo, unveiled on the 20th December 1919), Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor, Honeysuckle Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

William is now resting with a brown granite Commonwealth War Graves’s headstone.

http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/…/war-…/index.php…

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