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SCOTT, George Wilford
(Service number 11/373)

Aliases
First Rank	(1) Trooper; (2) Second Lieutenant	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	12/07/1894	Place of Birth	Waihola

Enlistment Information

Date	14 August 1914	Age	20 years 1 month
Address at Enlistment	(1) Porangahau
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience	Gore High School 1908-1911; 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles 1911-1914 - serving
Marital Status	(1) Single
Next of Kin	A. A. SCOTT (father), Sefton Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 9 inches. Weight 153 lbs. Chest measurement 31-35 inches. Complexion dark. Eyes grey. Hair dark. Sight - both eyes slightly impaired. Hearing & colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Teeth - no decay. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No remarks.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) Main Body; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) Wellington Mounted Rifles; (2) 37th Reinforcements Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	(1) 16 October 1914; (2) 23 April 1918
Transport	(1) Orari; (2) Willochra
Embarked From	(1) Wellington; (2) Wellington	Destination	(1) Suez, Egypt; (2) Southampton, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkan (Gallipoli); Egyptian; Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	12 October 1919	Reason	Struck off Strength of New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Six weeks in hospital in 1915.

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	27 July 1966	Age	72 years
Place of Death	130 Forbury Road (residence), Dunedin
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 29 July 1966
Memorial or Cemetery	Andersons Bay Crematorium, Dunedin. Ashes scattered
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Wilford SCOTT was the son of Adam Arthur SCOTT, and brother of Eric Arthur SCOTT. Enlisting on 14 August 1914, on the outbreak of war, G. W. Scott went with the Main Body and returned to Auckland on 9 September 1917. George married Marie Louise Ellen Home Sams in 1925 in New Zealand. After 5 years 3 months of service in World War One he enlisted for World War Two.

Extracts from George Wilford Scott's diary for August 1915, while at Gallipoli, appear in Robin S. Scott, et.al, "A Suitcase of Letters: The history of a family of Wilsons told by them in the letters they wrote from the 1790's-1930's" (Richmond, N.Z.: R.S. Scott, c1999).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [08 August 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives ref. AABK 18805 W5922 0102552) [14 October 2016], NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives ref. AABK 18805 W592258 0361328) [14 October 2016, 09 June 2017]; Timaru Herald, 29 July 1966 (Timaru District Library) [29 December 2015]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [20 July 2017]; SCRoll submission by A Gee, 4 July 2022

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