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8 years ago
scorpio
Sorry to triple post - just came across the transcript of a speech given at the Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd Museumon on the 22nd of september 2007 commemorating the sinking of the Slamat.
I'll be damned - seven lines into the speech is this -
"We remember Lt W.J. Scott and his Australian Anti Aircraft team who boarded too in Alexandrie to defend the Slamat against the atta
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8 years ago
scorpio
Sorry to double post, but I have come across some more info. The webpage gives a blow-by-blow account, based on signals and telegraphs, of the end of the Slamat. Interestingly the term "sloop" is used frequently to describe small boats - life boats and "motor sloops". It may well be that the combination of the terms (motor) sloop and "Slamat" led to the ship nam
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8 years ago
scorpio
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site that Phil pointed me to Walter Scott's date of death is listed as the 27th of April, 1941. This info I previously didn't know. Using a search tip that Phil suggested, I started searching for ship names that could have been mispronounced or misspelled, and I homed in on ships that were sunk on that date.
It turns out that Wiki
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8 years ago
scorpio
No need to apologise Phil - thanks for the input. I didn't know that he was recorded on the Alamein Memorial. However it makes sense in that he would have been a part of that theatre but was well dead before the Battle of El Alamein which would have become the focal naming point of the North Africa campaign. It makes me think he was off-shore Africa, not Greece. Just a guess.
However,
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8 years ago
scorpio
Thanks for the info Phil - I now have that record to go with his service records.
However, I am still looking for any reference to the ship he was on when he was killed. The name "Slanto" doesn't come up in any list of ships. Any amount of re-spelling draws a blank. At this point I'm stumped.
According to this site these are the relevant Allied (British and Greek - no
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8 years ago
scorpio
The image above is of part of the paperwork released by the Australian War Dept. during WW11 after my grandfather was listed missing. In the end he was declared dead.
The action was either off Nth Africa or Greece - I'm not sure which. The problem is that I can find no trace of any ship anywhere called "Slanto", let alone a sloop. Did the war office get it's info wrong
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