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Frank John SCOTT

Regimental number278
Place of birthPort Broughton, South Australia
SchoolGawler Public School, South Australia
ReligionSalvation Army
OccupationPorter
AddressChurch Hill, Gawler, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Height5' 8.5"
Weight137 lbs
Next of kinFather, James Scott, Church Hill, Gawler, South Australia
Previous military serviceServed for 2 years in the 79th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date22 August 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll27 August 1914
Place of enlistmentMorphettville, South Australia
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name10th Battalion, G Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/27/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board Transport A11 Ascanius on 20 October 1914
Regimental number from Nominal RollCommissioned
Rank from Nominal RollLieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll10th Battalion
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)

Mention in Despatches


Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette', second Supplement, No. 30107 (1 June 1917); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 169 (4 October 1917).

FateKilled in Action 8 October 1917
Place of death or woundingBelgium
Age at death22.9
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, 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.

Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated in Willaston Cemetery, Gawler, South Australia. Parents: James (d. 25 November 1923, aged 61; bu. Gawler) and Felicia Rosina (d. 2 July 1958, aged 89; bu. Gawler) SCOTT, Frankcleve, Church Hill, Gawler, South Australia
Family/military connectionsBrother: [998] Lt Cleve James SCOTT MC, 10th Bn, killed in action, 22 July 1918.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, SCOTT Frank John

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