Scanlan was apprenticed in Belfast for 4 years to Harland and Wolfe's ship building company that later built the Titanic. During 1914, he managed the Union Reefs Gold Mining Syndicate of the Northern Territory, which received a grant of 160 acres on the Union and Lady Alice line of reef from the government.,
History
Scalan served with the Bushveldt Carbineers during the Boer War, Breaker Morant's unit. He embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A38 'Ulysses' on 20 February 1916 and returned to Australia on 19 April 1919. He was awarded the Military Medal on 9 April 1917.,
Subject
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8076265,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067112/RCDIG1067112--75-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1553270/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/16/2/,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278117,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278830,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1530581/,
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8076265 [Service Record],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278117 ["Soldiers letters", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 16 March 1916: p.15.],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278830 ["News & Notes", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 9 July 1914: p.12.],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275 [Darwin Returned Servicemens' League (RSL) : A Concise History of its Conception and Development by Clive Francis Geddes. Darwin : Clive Francis Geddes, 2011: p.59.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/16/2/ [Unit War Diary],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1553270/ [Nominal Roll],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067112/RCDIG1067112--75-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - HMAT A38 'Ulysses'],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1530581/ [Military Medal],