Robert Allison Scutt 1920-1999

Notes [MMelbourne Grammar School, Scholarship Awards. The Argus - Tuesday 12 December 1933 p9 Article. Hon William Cain Scholarship - R. A. Scutt] [Scutt, Robert Allison: Date of birth 02 Jan 1920: Place of birth - Mirfield, England: Place of enlistment - Melbourne: Next of Kin - Scutt, Cecil. Contents date range 1939-1948 & Service Number V11639: Place of enlistment - Royal Park, Victoria. & Service Number VX60706 & Service Number V185905: Place of enlistment: Prahran, Victoria, Location Hobart & Army Number 213179 - Barcode 9313842.] [The Argus Wednesday 18 December 1935 p20 Article. Exerpt ... Scholarship Rewards, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Following are the awards of scholarships for 1936 at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School Foundation Scholarships ... Bage Memorial Scholarship: R A Scutt.] [1946 May 02 Gowrie Awards. Winners Annouced. Research travelling fellowships valued at £475 (Australian) a year have been awarded to Flight-Lieut. F. J. Blakeney, BA (hons.), Sydney, and Flight-Lieut. R. A. Scutt B.A. (hons.), Melbourne. Flight Lieut. Flight-Lieut. Scutt, who is 26 years old, graduated with M. J. Smedley, first-class honours in arts in 1940. As an Air Force Intelligence officer, he was engaged during the war in reading and translating captured versity of Sydney, he proposes to carry out research in Japanese and Chinese at the University of London.] [Armstrong-Scutt - Dorothy, youngest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A. O. Armstrong of Upwey, Victoria to Flight-Lieutenant Robert A. Scutt, R.A.A.F., elder son of Professor & Mrs. C. A. Scutt, of Wallace Avenue, Toorak.] [1946 Jun 01 Gowrie Award to Brilliant Melbourne Student. The Gowrie Scholarship Fund, established to perpetuate the memory of Captain Patrick Hore-Ruthven, son of Lord and Lady Gowrie, has, in addition to several scholarships tenable in Australian universities,given for the first time this year two major research travelling scholarships, valued at £475 a year. One of these has come to Melbourne. The winner is Flight-Lieut Robert A. Scutt, whose father is Professor of Classics in the University of Melbourne. After a brilliant course in classics and in French, he topped the classics school at graduation, and subsequently enlisted in the RAAF, serving in New Guineain Air Force Intelligence. Rapidly mastering Japanese in an Army school, he translated captured Japanese documents, and did much useful interpreting work with prisoners. Flight-Lieut Scutt is at present an instructor in Japanese at the RAAF Language School at Ascotvale. He intends to do research work in Chinese and Japanese at the Oriental School in the University of London.]