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Arthur John SCOTT

Regimental number3903
Place of birthBairnsdale, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationLabourer
AddressHalcyon, Truginerli Street, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Height5' 10"
Weight154 lbs
Next of kinFather, William J Scott, Meehren, Victoria
Previous military serviceMember of the Stratford Rifle Club, Victoria.
Enlistment date15 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll12 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name14th Battalion, 12th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/31/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 23 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollGunner
Unit from Nominal Roll11th Field Artillery Brigade
FateKilled in Action 1 October 1917
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
17
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Taken on strength, 46th Bn, Tel el Kebir, Egypt, 6 March 1916. Transferred to 12th Field Artillery Brigade, 17 March 1916; mustered as Gunner and posted to 48th Battery.

Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 2 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 9/10 June 1916. Taken on strength, 24th Field Artillery Brigade, 15 June 1916. Detached to Divisional Signalling School, Le Chausee, 26 December 1916; returned to unit, 13 January 1917. Transferred to 11th Field Artillery Brigade, 25 January 1917, and posted to 43rd Battery.

Killed in action, Belgium, 1 October 1917.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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