Second Lieutenant George Scott

Second Lieutenant George Trotter Scott, 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment ( Prince of Wales’s Own ). He died in France, aged 23, on 6th May 1917 from wounds received in action during the Battle Of Arras. He had been born in Sprouston and was the son of Wilhelmina Scott . In 1901, aged 7, he was living with relatives Robert and Elizabeth Hall at Berrymoss Cottage, Kelso. He had enlisted in October 1914 in the 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps  landing in France in May 1915. He was commissioned in November 1915. He is buried in La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne, France and his headstone is inscribed “Until The Day Dawn”. The photographs show British troops accompanied by a tank in the main street of a captured village near Arras scenes elsewhere during the Battle.