Peter Scott
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"Sir Peter Markham Scott" was a British ornithologist, conservation movement/conservationist, Painting/painter, naval officer and sportsman.

Scott was knighted in 1973 for his contribution to the Conservation biology/conservation of wild animals. He had been a founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (November 1946), and was an influence on international conservation. He received the WWF Gold Medal and the J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership/J. Paul Getty Prize for his work.

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You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.

Look, from a professional soldier's point of view, we were very eager to get there and to do the job that we were trained for.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

Everybody, I would say, if you could love anybody he was loved by everybody because he had such concern for his soldiers and he was so able in getting them to do what he wanted them to do, and they did it instinctively and because his orders were so clear and concise, and I think that - I hope - that rubbed off onto me when I was CO.

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

It was very, very cold and there were a number of injuries, self-inflicted injuries, because people just couldn't take the cold.