12. Edwin Alan Lindsay Scott 1901 [1519]

PARENT 11 Thomas Walter William Scott 1863 [1154]

EDWIN ALAN LINDSAY SCOTT (ALAN) was born at Glenthompson on the 11 October 1901 (27251) .

He married ALMA JANE EAGLAND in 1927 (2037). Alma, daughter of Edward Eagland and Alice Maud Knight, was born at Lang Lang Victoria in 1896 ( 29078).

Edwin enlisted in the Australian Army at Caulfield, Victoria on the 22 June 1940 (VX40110), strangely his mother Annie and not his wife, is named as next of kin.

He was posted as a driver to the 2/2 Motor Ambulance Convoy. He was taken prisoner of war and died in Malaysia on the 11 August 1943, aged 41. He was interred at the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery -A14-R-9.

His life is commemorated on the war memorial at Glenthompson and there is also a plaque dedicated to him at the family burial plot.