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Percival Glendinning Scott

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Portrait, Weekly News 31 December 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Portrait, Weekly News 31 December 1941 - This image may be subject to copyright

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percival Glendinning AWMM
  • Surname
    Scott AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Percy Scott AWMM
  • Service number
    WWII 7338 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Riverton, Southland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 Unknown AWMM 133 Clyde Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mr R. C. Scott (father), 133 Clyde Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 January 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWII AWMM
      Shot and suffered shrapnel wounds in Crete. AWMM
    • Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Percival Scott was the son of Ralph Scott and of Muriel Scott (nee Glendinning), of Riverton, Southland, New Zealand; husband of Gwendolyn Vera Scott, of Invercargill, Southland. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    27 November 1941 AWMM
    Age 23 AWMM
    Sidi Rezegh, Western Desert AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya AWMM 6. A. 13. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Southland Times AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Invercargill Cenotaph, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.161 AWMM
    • Pringle, D., & Glue, W. (1957). 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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