MR PETER SCOTT AND HIS WIFE at the Christchurch airport yesterday just after their arrival from Australia to make a tour of the Dominion. The son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the polar explorer, Mr Scott is an eminent ornithologist, and founder and director of the Wildfowl Trust in Britain. He is also prominent as an artist and writer. During the 1939-45 war he served in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander and winning the D.S.C. and bar. In 1953 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28162, 28 December 1956, Page 8
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95MR PETER SCOTT AND HIS WIFE at the Christchurch airport yesterday just after their arrival from Australia to make a tour of the Dominion. The son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the polar explorer, Mr Scott is an eminent ornithologist, and founder and director of the Wildfowl Trust in Britain. He is also prominent as an artist and writer. During the 1939-45 war he served in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander and winning the D.S.C. and bar. In 1953 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28162, 28 December 1956, Page 8
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