Private Arthur John Scurry - 5/2103

Private Arthur Scurry was born in Southern Cross, Western Australia in 1932. He was one of six children, with an older brother and four sisters. Scurry’s family spent most of his childhood living in the goldfields. During World War 2 when his father George Scurry enlisted, George gave his occupation as a railway employee and his wife’s address as Bayswater, Perth. Perhaps the family stayed with relatives in Perth while George was on active service. Scurry and his younger sister are mentioned coming home for the school holidays in the local newspaper, so had left the goldfields for at least some of their schooling. The family were living in Bullfinch in 1949, when Mrs. Scurry died. His father moved back to Perth after this loss, as Scurry was living in South Perth at the time he commenced his National Service in 1951. Scurry was working as a labourer prior to his National Service training and was in perfect health, (his me...