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Robert D. Scott
Royal Navy
Robert Scott served in the Royal Navy. He enlisted on the 10th of August 1914 and served until his discharge on the 31st of March 1920. His father was Robert Scott and his mother Janet, nee Fernie.
Cpl. Thomas Alfred Scott
British Army 8th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
(d.22nd Jan 1917)
Thomas Scott died age 24, he formerly served in the Yorkshire Regiment. Born in Jarrow in 1893, son of John and Jessie Scott of South Shields. Thomas Scott, age 19, a Shipyard Labourer, was apparently a Prisoner in Jarrow Police Cells in the 1911 Census. Thomas was living in South Shields when he enlisted in Sunderland. He is buried in Amara War Cemetery.
Pte. Thomas Scott
British Army 23rd (4th Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Bedlington, Northumberland
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Scott was born at Ford, near Wooler in Northumberland, he was married to Hannah (Gray) and had four children; my Grandfather William Ralph, Norman, Olive and Thomas Gordon. He was living in Bedlington. He walked to his death on the 1st July 1916 and fell in 'No Man's Land' so he has no known grave but is mentioned on Theipval. He was 38
My Grandad was still grieving for his father 60 years later and found it difficult to discuss him without being upset and a little angry about the way he died and left my great grandmother to struggle and bring up her family without him, I'm sure my great Granda thought he was off on an adventure, serve his country and earn a few extra 'bob' come back to his family and job.
We don't have any photos of Thomas perhaps my Grandfather's siblings have. So, if you are out there, Peter and Jennifer Scott known to have lived in Cambridge or their children and Trevor Hall and his family who emigrated to either Australia or New Zealand please get in touch and let's put Thomas's photo on The Theipval Memorial site with all the other soldiers.
Cpl. Thomas Scott
British Army 21st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Cornhill-on-Tweed
My grandfather, Thomas Scott, was a farmer in Cornhill and joined up in January 1916 (according to his short service record). He was wounded and returned to England for treatment in September 1916 at the Red Cross Hospital in Derby. He was later discharged in May 1917 due to the severity of his wound which caused him partial paralysis.
Pte. Thomas Wilson Scott
British Army 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Alnwick
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte Thomas Wightman Scott Military Medal and bar
British Army 6th Btn King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Coldingham
Lt. W. H. Scott
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Fulham, London
(d.20th Nov 1917)
Lieutenant Scott was the Son of Mr. W. D. Scott of 13 Rosaville Rd., Fulham, London. He was 28 when he died and is buried in the San Remo Town Communal Cemetery in Italy.
2nd Lt. Walter Scott
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Botanic Ave, Belfast
(d.22nd Nov 1917 )
Pte. Walter Robert Scott
British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Rfm. Walter Thomas Scott
British Army
from:Kent,
LSea. Walter Scott
Royal Navy HMS Contest
(d.18th Sep 1917)
Pte. Walter Eustace Scott
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Acton, London
(d.27th September 1915)
Walter Scott was born in Notting Hill in 1884, the youngest of five children to Frederick and Selina Scott. His father was a cab driver and died in 1908. The 1911 census shows Walter living with his widowed mother at 110 Shakespeare Road in Acton. His employment is shown as being an electrician. He served with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the 27th of September 1915, aged 31 years during the Battle of Loos. Many of the deaths among the 85th Brigade are recorded as being on the 27th September 1915 but they are more likely to have taken place on the 28th September 1915, when the attack commenced.
Walter has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Pte. Wiiliam Thomas Scott
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Northumberland
(d.27th July 1915)
L/Cpl. William Scott
British Army 22nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Darlington
(d.27th May 1918)
Spr. William Scott
British Army 422nd Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.30th Nov 1917)
William Scott was born and was living in Jarrow when he enlisted South Shields. He is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow.
Sgt. William Scott
British Army King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
I am looking for information on my grandfather Sgt. William Scott, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in WWI. I know little about him.
Pt.e William John Scott
British Army 2/5th Battalion Leicester Regiment
from:Leicester
(d.30th Sep 1917)
My Grandfather William Scott volunteered in April 1917 when he was 40 years & 8 months old. His only daughter was born in June 1917. He spent the early part of his service in England and was sent to Belgium immediately after leave to see his daughter after her birth. He was apparently killed by a blast from a mine while in a rest area 3 months later. There is no grave. His name is recorded on the memorials at Zonnebeke, Belgium
Pte. William Scott
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
(d.3rd Sept 1916)
William Scott was killed in action at Falfemont Farm. He was never found. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial.
God bless him and all the others
Pte. Frederick William Scotting
British Army 2/5th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Bury
(d.28th April 1917)
Pte. William Scotton
British Army 4th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.3rd Feb 1915)
William Scotton served with the 4th Battlion, Middlesex Regiment during WW1. He was executed for desertion 3rd February 1915, aged 19. Private William Scotton, aged 19 years, has no known grave, his name is recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial He was the son of Mrs. Catherine Scotton, of 52, Gladstone Road, Walton, Liverpool. His brother, Albert also fell.
At the end of December 1914, Scotton was convicted of going absent. Despite this, on 23 January 1915, he repeated the offence. While he was absent, his unit had seen service in the front line. Scotton returned to his unit a day after they had returned from their front line service. He was tried and found guilty of desertion. Private William Scotton was executed by firing squad, at Vierstraat, on 3 February 1915. The firing squad was made up of a NCO and seven men from his own unit. The rest of the unit were ordered to witness the event.
Sgt. Herbert Scougal
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Rflmn. Wilfred Alban Scovell
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Ventnor
(d.12th October 1918)
L/Cpl Bernard Isaac Scoyne
British Army 3rd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Victor Street, Walsall
Pte Frederick William Scrafton
British Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:South Shields
(d.27th September 1916)
Sgt. James Horn Scragg
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Dulwich, London
Pte. Arthur Scripps
British Army 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Barley
(d.3rd Nov 1918)
Arthur Scripps enlisted in Royston and joined the 3rd Battalion The Grenadier Guards. He died in the Capelle region of Flanders near Bapaume, on the 3rd of November 1918, only eight days before the Armistace. He is buried at Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny
Pte. John Scripps
British Army 10th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Barley
(d.6th Sep 1918)
John Scripps, enlisted at Tottenham, where he joined the Bedfordshire Regiment. Seconded as a private to the 10th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment. He died of his wounds, 6th September 1918 at the Battle of Roche Noir near Salonika in Greece and is buried at Karasouli Military Cemetery in Greece.
Capt. Arthur William Scrivener MC.
British Army 1/10th Btn. London Regiment
from:Sidcup
(d.2nd November 1917)
Arthur Scrivener was born in 1894 and attended Dartford Grammar School and some of his deeds were recorded in the school magazine, the Dartfordian. He wrote to the magazine in 1916 to describe the fighting in Gallipoli and his subsequent evacuation to Egypt, and then again in 1917 to describe his experiences in Egypt describing his work alongside Indian camel cavalry and the Bedouin. He was awarded the MC in 1917 and the following description of his achievement was published in the Summer 1917 Dartfordian:
"Capt. Scrivener was at Dartford Grammar School from January 1908 to December 1910, and was a keen member of the OTC. Shortly after leaving school he became interested in a newly raised batt. of the London (Territorial) Regt. and even designed its regimental badge. He was gazetted captain prior to the war and we believe, we are right in saying, that at that time he was the youngest captain in the Imperial Forces. In July 1915 Capt. Scrivener's regiment proceeded to Gallipoli and on withdrawal of the troops from the peninsula went to Egypt and was for a time on the Western Frontier. It again went into action with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine and at the battle of Gaza where he won the MC Capt. Scrivener was wounded. We are glad to state that he has now fully recovered and has rejoined his regiment."
Scrivener was killed at Gaza on the 2nd of November, and the following obituary appeared in the Winter 1917 Dartfordian:
"Scrivener was at Dartford Grammar School from January 1908 to December 1910, and was an enterprising member of the OTC. He joined his regiment, a London territorial one, on leaving school, and gained his captaincy before war broke out, when he was only 19 years old. In July 1915, the regiment went to Gallipoli where they suffered heavily. On the withdrawal of the troops from the peninsula, Capt. Scrivener served for a time on the Western Frontier of Egypt, during which period he learnt to speak and write Arabic fluently. From Egypt he went to Palestine and won the MC and was wounded in front of Gaza last April. After a brief spell in hospital he returned to the Battle of The Gate (Gaza) and was killed in action on November, 3rd, four days prior to the fall of the city for which he had fought so long, a fortnight after his 23rd birthday."
The CWGC records show that he was the son of Edith Mary Scrivener of Sidcup, Kent. To this day the prize for the yearly house competition at the school is the Scrivener Shield, a trophy presented to the school by his mother and which has the badge from his cap set into it.
The letters written by Scrivener are as follows:
Spring 1916 Dartfordian:
A copy of the magazine came from Dines this morning, and I read it; it was absolutely refreshing to hear of the old school again, although there are so many strange names.
We left England on the 29th of July, and arrived at Mudros on the 3rd of August. We came out on the Aquitania, and had a very good voyage. The Battalion went up to the Peninsula on the 10th of August, but I was left at Mudros with 200 men until the 16th, when I joined them at Suvla.
It was pretty tough going there, we lost 400 men in one afternoon, during an advance against the Anafarta Hills. After this we dug ourselves in as best we could, but it was nearly all rock where our line was, so we could only get down a couple of feet at the most, and we had to lie absolutely flat during the day, unable to move without a squall of shrapnel being turned on us. As we were enfiladed by snipers from the Kiretch Tipe Sirt, and could get no water at all till dark, and then only a bottleful, it was very unpleasant, especially as it was between 90 and 100 degrees in the shade during the day, and there we had no shade.
At the end of August we shifted to the Sari Bair at Anzac, and we were there till the 4th December. I got a dose of gastroenteritis, and did not rejoin until the 14th, so I missed the Anzac show.
They've sent us to Egypt now; we were at Sidi Bishi, near Alexandria, for a week or so, and are now somewhere on the Western Frontier, where there have been one or two raids, but nothing has come our way as yet.
We are close to the borders of the Libyan Desert, within a three hours march, in fact. The country is absolutely dead flat, and there is a strong salt deposit. Water has to come from Alexandria by rail to the nearest town, 20 miles away, and from there by a ramshackle light railway falling to bits with age and neglect.
The native villages are for the most part filthy beyond description; we've had very heavy rains, and when we march through them, we're over our boots in sewage and filth, and all the stinks known to science come to greet you. H2S is a fool to them! Of course, it is not known how long we shall be here, or where we shall go to next, but, as they say here, It is on our foreheads.
The fateful day on which 400 British soldiers are noted as being killed would be the 15th of August 1915, a day on which the CWGC lists 437 men as having died at Gallipoli, including 44 from the 1/10th London Regiment.
Spring 1917 Dartfordian, letter dated 12/01/1917:
I was jolly pleased to get a copy of the mag to-day, and to see the various changes. It seems a long time since I left, fellows who were in the First then are now in the Sixth! It must be nearly a year now since I wrote last: during the whole of which time we've been in the Desert of El Tib, in Sinai. It has been rather a rough time, particularly in May and June, when the daily temperature averaged 120degrees in the shade, and the Khamsim was blowing. The Khamsim is a strong south westerly wind, which invariably brings a sand storm with it, and the heat is like a blast from a furnace.
The monotony of the last ten months has been rather wretched, in endless succession of long camel patrols with the Bikanceri and desert marches, the only relief being an occasional raid on wells away in the hills. The only fellows we've been up against are the Bedouin, the more reckless of whom sided with the Turks. They seem to be pukka men too, and must have a pretty rotten existence, wandering from oasis to oasis, with nothing but this awful desert in between.
They're mostly of an exceptionally fine physique, and trek along with their scant herds and families. The hills our way were occupied by the Anhad Ali. Their agricultural implements are very primitive, and the only attempts at cultivation I've seen so far have been a few melon patches near the wells, and in a few of the Wadis.
The desert in our sub-section is very undulating, with vast areas of ever changing dunes, rising from sea level at the canal bank, to about 1400 feet, thirty miles or so to the east, then comes to an abrupt ridge of limestone hills, well over 2000 feet high, and extending in a tangled mass half way to Kalaat-En-Nakhe. We've been down in the extreme southern end of the desert posts the whole time, and so missed the scrap at Romani. The Bedouin are first-class fellows when on their own ground, and don't give a hang for anyone. They sometimes have unpleasant methods with captured wounded though.
It is rather hard to appreciate the tremendous difference between the operations in France and out here. Here, the distances are so vast, and the desert so immense, and in France, we seem right on top of each other. Our fellows are in first-class trim, and if pushed can cover their thirty miles in a day over loose sand, in fighting order.
We had a very interesting trek last September, when we went out to Bir El Tawaal, and took the wells from the Bedouin. We covered rather over ninety miles during the week we were out, dislodging the enemy from his positions and followed him over a range of hills well over 2000 feet high for some miles. At one time we were down at Ayan Musa (Moses Wells), which is the place the Israelites first halted at after the trek from Egypt. We got a pretty big job coming off very soon, and we may with luck go to another fighting front further south. Gallipoli, Sinai, and who knows?
With kindest regards to you all.
Scrivener was one of more than 270 pupils from Dartford Grammar School who served in the First World War, 46 of whom were killed.
L/Cpl James Henry Scrivener
British Army 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
from:Ipswich, Suffolk
Pte. John Scrivens
British Army 1st Btn. The Border Regiment
from:Kirkby Stephen
(d.18 Mar 1916)
John joined the 11th Battalion but somehow ended up in the 1st Battalion being posted to Dardanelles. His ship sailed from Keyham Harbour on 24th May 1915 landed on 15th June.
On 23rd June he was admitted to Alexandria Hospital in Egypt (HQ for the Dardanelles Campaign) with Enteric contracted in the field. He was shipped back to England from Port Said on 16th September on the HMHS Runic arriving home on October 5th.
After a period of 63 days in England he was posted to France on 8th December with 2nd Battalion and was promoted to unpaid Lance Corporal on February 2nd 1916. He was in and out of hospital in France for fever of unknown origin and bronchitis. He was injured and died from his wounds on 18th March 1916.
He is remembered on a memorial in St Michaels Church in Brough and buried in Norfolk Cemetery at Becordel-Becourt, Somme. His mother had died in 1902 (she had John out of wedlock so father is unknown) and his half brother who was next of kin also killed in the war so his effects and his war medals were sent to his cousin Emily Scrivens (married and became Phillips) of Stoddah Farm Penrith.
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