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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 13.06.1916
  • Place of enlistment: Sydney, NSW
  • Service no: 559
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Australian Machine Gun Corps
  • Unit/Ship: 21st Company
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 37
  • Date of Death: 27.09.1917
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 31

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Electrical Mechanic
  • Mother:

    Mary Crockell Scott, 26 Gilpin St, Camperdown, Sydney

  • Father:

    William Scott

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Horatio Scott

For reasons unknown Horatio is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour. For more information on Horatio, visit Horatio’s Service Record.

Horatio Scott   559 Australian Imperial Force

SCOTT—Killed in action, 26th September, 1917, Private Horatio Scott, Australian Imperial Force, the oldest and dearly beloved son of Mrs Scott, late of 18 William Street, Dundee and of 26 Gilpin Street, Camperdown, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. – Inserted by his sorrowing aunt and family, 36 Jamacia Street, Dundee.

Dundee Peoples Journal 13th October 1917

Information supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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