Person:Arthur Scott (13)

From Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial: Scott, Arthur; Number: 5899; Rank: Sapper [Spr]; Unit: 4th Div Signal Coy Australian Engineers; Service: Army; Conflict: 1914-1918; Date of Death: 26/12/1916; Cause of Death: Died of wounds; Memorial Panel: 26; Cemetery or Memorial Details: FRANCE 833 Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt-L'Abbe; Place Of Enlistment: Essendon, VIC; Notes: SCOTT, Spr. Arthur, 5899. 4th Div. Signal Coy. Australian Engineers. Died of wounds 26th Dec., 1916. Age 33. Son of Alice Elizabeth Scott, of 201, Buckley St., Essendon, Victoria, Australia, and the late Robert Scott. Native of Opossum Gully, Ararat, Victoria. VI. G. 17.

From CWGC: Name: SCOTT, ARTHUR; Initials: A; Nationality: Australian; Rank: Sapper; Regiment: Australian Engineers; Unit Text: 4th Div. Signal Coy.; Age: 33; Date of Death: 26/12/1916; Service No: 5899; Additional information: Son of Alice Elizabeth Scott, of 201, Buckley St., Essendon, Victoria, Australia, and the late Robert Scott. Native of Opossurn Gully, Ararat, Victoria; Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead; Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. G. 17; Cemetery: HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE

Mericourt-l'Abbe is a village approximately 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens and 10 kilometres south-west of Albert. Heilly Station Cemetery is about 2 kilometres south-west of Mericourt-l'Abbe, on the south side of the road to Corbie. The 36th Casualty Clearing Station was at Heilly from April 1916. It was joined in May by the 38th, and in July by the 2/2nd London, but these hospitals had all moved on by early June 1917. The cemetery was begun in May 1916 and was used by the three medical units until April 1917. From March to May 1918, it was used by Australian units, and in the early autumn for further hospital burials when the 20th Casualty Clearing Station was there briefly in August and September 1918. The last burial was made in May 1919. There are now 2,890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves. The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.