Hugh Moore Scott (1885 - 1942)

Born 27 Apr 1885 in Suva, Fiji

Ancestors

Husband of Emily Clara Louise Austen MBE — married 31 May 1910 (to 1934) in Bomatana, Choisieul Island, British Solomon Islands

Husband of Mildred Miriam Whitcomb — married about 1938 in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 1 Jul 1942 at age 57 in At Sea

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Biography

Hugh Scott was a Prisoner of War during World War II.

Hugh Scott died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.

Hugh was born in 1885. Hugh was the child of Richard Scott and Florence Turner.

He lived in the British Solomon Islands from at least 1910 until 1924.

Married Clara Austen on 31st May 1910: Bamatana, Choiseul Island, Solomon Island ^[1]

Clara Spent Two Years in Sydney, Australia - as mentioned in their Divorce proceedings ^[2]

Divorced in 1928 - as filed in Sydney, NSW, Australia. In fact, they were divorced, then Clara appealed the claim that she had deserted him. The appeal was upheld. ^[3]

Although they were already divorced in 1928 in Sydney, Hugh filed for divorce in the Solomon Islands, the first case for the new Supreme Court ^[4]

Plantation Manager of Asalingi Plantation, Bainings District, New Britain. Son of Richard and Florence Eugene Scott; husband of Mildred Miriam Scott. [Fate]. He had lived in New Guinea from about 1932. He was captured at Massawa when the Japanese invaded in Jan 1942 and interned as a civilian prisoner. He died in captivity when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed and sank on 01 Jul 1942 off the coast of the Philippines. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?296272 ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206148758 Island Trader Accuses Him Of Illicit Love In The Sighing Solomons]
2. ↑ Two Year Stay in Sydney
3. ↑ Divorce
4. ↑ Divorce 1936
5. ↑ https://wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?295446

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• First Marriage details - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16474178
• Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936: Residence date: 1930 Residence place: Milson's Point, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Australian Electoral Rolls, 1901-1936: Residence date: 1933 Residence place: Crow's Nest, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1949 - Marriage date: 1938 Marriage place: Mosman, New South Wales - Registration Number: 15979
• Challis, B.G; "Rabaul 1942 Escape From New Britain", Bulletin - of the Rabaul Sub-branch Returned Services League of Australia; Vol. 3, No. 7 Aug-Sept 1967; P.10
• Death Form - National Archives of Australia - Defence - General - Information of deaths for persons lost on the MONTEVIDEO MARU - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=102239&S=156
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3173348/hugh-moore-scott/
• International, Find A Grave Index for Select Locations, 1300s-Current
• New South Wales, Australia, Index to Deceased Estate Files, 1923-1958 - State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Indexes to deceased estate files; Archive Series: NRS 13341; Series: A Series (1939-1948); Reel Number: 3285
• At the Going Down of the Ship