Name
James Yuill Scott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Rifle Brigade
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Kilchrenan War Memorial, Argyll
Pre War
Born on 27 Dec 1881 in China (probably Shanghai) son of James Henry and Emily Reid (Yuill) Scott. Educated at Haileybury College 1894-99, then Univ, Oxford, was called to the Bar, but never practised. His father was James Henry SCOTT, of the Greenock shipowner/shipbuilders Scotts. and Senior Partner in John Swire & Sons Limited (a major China Import/Export trading house), who was born in Largs, Ayrshire, but had connections in Aberdeen on his wife’s family’s side, where his father-in-law (James Yuill Scott’s grandfather) was residing in 1901.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 22 Jul 1915, served with the 20th Division and was killed in action at the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, Mark Brockway
