SCOTT, Henry Thomas
| Service Number: | 173 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1914, Enlisted at Hobart, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland, 1894 |
| Home Town: | New Town, Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Hobart State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Fruit Merchant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 35, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 173, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Hobart, Tasmania | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 173, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 173, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 173, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed in action |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of John Newton and Mary Scott of Commercial Road, New Town, Tasmania. Address for parents in 1921 was Marion Road, South Plympton, SA and in 1922 it was 22 Symonds Place, Adelaide, SA
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the School Cadets with the rank of Corporal
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Henry Thomas Scott (Service No:173) enlisted in the AIF on 27 August 1914, and was attached to 12th Infantry Battalion on 20 October 1914 when he embarked with his Unit from Hobart, Tasmania for Alexandria on board HMAT A2 Geelong. Private Scott was originally Reported Missing at the Dardanelles on 28 April 1915. Corporal SE Leitch (Service No:8255) stated that 'Scott's name appeared in the 'Tasmanian Mail', with his photograph, and a statement to the effect that he was taken prisoner at the Anzac landing and is now in Turkey. I saw this in a copy of the 'Mail' while I was in Egypt early in this year' (AWM: Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files). The finding of the Court of Inquiry (22 October 1916) was that Private Scott was KiA at Gallipoli Penisula on 25 April 1915.
Harry was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland in 1894, youngest of four children of John Newton Scott (b1864 in Kelso, Roxburhshire, Scotland) and Mary Nisbett Wilson (b1863 in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland). John (a Grocer) and Mary (a Domestic Servant) married in Edinburgh in 1887, and were living in Selkirkshire - where John was a Grocer - in 1901 when they immigrated with their children, arriving in Hobart on board the Tongariro. John and Mary settled in Hobart, where they raised their family and John was a Fruit Merchant - his three sons joining him in the trade. John and Mary moved to Adelaide, South Australia in 1919, and to Melbourne in the late 1920s.
Harry worked as a Fruit Merchant before enlisting in the AIF.
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