Private William Scott

Private William Scott, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action on Gallipoli, aged 21, on 12th July 1915 during the “Charge” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been born in Greenlaw and was the son of William and the late Phyllis Scott of Church Street, Greenlaw. He had been employed as a quarryman and had enlisted in Territorial 4th K.O.S.B.  As a Territorial he had been mobilised in August 1914 and had landed with his Battalion on Gallipoli in June 1915. That fateful day became known as the “Black Day of the Borders” as at evening roll call only 70 unwounded Men answered out of the over 700 Officers and Other Ranks who had begun the attack. Few Border towns and villages had not lost at least one of their sons that day. The first photo shows Achi Baba, the attack objective, marked with a cross. This “hill” dominated the battlefield and was never captured. The second shows the Borderers attacking at Gallipoli. (His brother George also fell – see above).

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