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Pte. Richard Wilson Scott
Australian Imperial Forces 10th Australian Machine Gun Coy
from:Galore, NSW
My Grandfather, Richard Scott joined 37th Battalion at Seymour in 1916 aged 20. He embarked on the Persic on the 3rd of June 1916 and transferred to 10th Machine Gun Company before embarking to the front. He celebrated his 21st birthday in the Houplines trenches. He was wounded on the second day of the Battle of Messines Ridge then wounded again at Passchendale, 4 times in all, some woulds were severe enough to spend up to 5 months in England. He saw the war out and returned home in 1919.