Private George Scott

Private George Robertson Scott, 1st/4th (Border) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died on 17th July 1915 of wounds received in the “Charge” on Gallipoli on 12th July 1915 on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah, aged 22 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been born in Longformacus and was the son of George and Barbara Scott of Longformacus Mill. Before enlisting in November 1914 he had worked with his father as a farm labourer at Longformacus Mill. He was a noted local shot both with the rifle and shotgun. (The author’s Great Uncle Corporal James Murray from Coldstream was also wounded that day. He spent six weeks in hospital in Alexandria before re-joining his comrades at Gallipoli). The first photo shows Achi Baba, the objective, marked with a cross. This “hill” dominated the battlefield and was never captured. The second shows the Borderers going into the attack at Gallipoli and the third shows the battlefield in 1922.