The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Scala
- First Name:
- Mervyn Stewart
- Nick Name:
- Mick
- Rank:
- Lance Corporal
- Regimental #:
- WX12202
- Company:
- Headquarters Company, No. 1 Platoon Signals
- Enlisted:
- 2.05.1941
- Discharged:
- 30.05.1946
- DOB:
- 27.03.1907
- Place of Birth:
- Maylands, Western Australia
- Father's Name:
- Dominic Scala
- Mothers's Name:
- Alice 'Blanche' Scala (nee Sharpe)
- Religion:
- Roman Catholic
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Forestry Worker
- Singapore:
- A. G. H. Roberts Barracks Changi, Selarang Barracks Changi, Kranji Hospital Woodlands, Changi Gaol Camp.
- POW#:
- 1/9217
- Return Details 1945:
- Singapore‐Darwin‐Sydney, HMT Arawa, Sydney‐Melbourne by troop train, Melbourne-Fremantle, HMT Strathmore.
General Description
Mick Scala enlisted AIF May 1941 and joined 2/4th MGB’s HQ Company, No.1 Platoon, becoming Lance Corporal.
Scala was wounded in action at Ulu Pandan on 12/2/1942 Evacuated to 2/13th Australian General Hospital at St Patricks School with a gunshot wound to his left forearm. This caused a compound fracture to both bones. Transferred to 2/10th Australian General Hospital on 7/3/1942 and transferred again to No. 2 Convalescent Depot ex A.G.H. Roberts Barracks Changi on 26/9/1942. Soldier was given a ‘D’ Medical Classification by the Japanese.
Because of his injuries Scala remained at Singapore throughout the war and was recovered from Changi at the end of war.
He was the youngest of four children born to Dominic (Domenico Stefano Scala, b. Poschiavo, Switzerland) and Alice ‘Blanche’ Scala (nee Sharpe) who married 1903.
Mick married 1937 to Evelyn Elizabeth Jackson. They had two children, the eldest was Mervyn Frederick Scala b. Nov 1941 and a daughter Wendy.
Mick’s father died in 1951 and his mother died 1968.
Mervyn Scala d. 30 Oct 1983 at Subiaco.
Camp Locations:
- Changi Gaol Camp - Singapore
- Kranji Camp Woodlands - Singapore
- Roberts Barracks Changi - Singapore
- Selarang Barracks Changi - Singapore
