Name
Ernest Scott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
80028
Royal Horse Artillery
"G" Battery, 5th Army Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Plot S.III, Row G, Grave 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham,
St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham,
Letchmore Heath Village Memorial,
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of George and Emma (formerly HINE/HINDES, nee JAKEMAN) SCOTT.
His parents married 4 October 1879 at St John the Baptist, Aldenham, Herts. George died 1928 in Aldenham aged 79, and was buried 2 January 1929 at St John the Baptist, Aldenham; Emma died 1945 in the Watford district aged 87.
Ernest was born 1896 in Aldenham, and baptised 1 August 1896 at St John the Baptist, Aldenham.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Aldenham, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, a farm labourer aged 13, he still lived in Aldenham, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 23 August 1914 in Mill Hill, Middx, for Short Service (3 years with the Colours): a gardener aged 19, 5’6¾” tall, C of E.
He was admitted to No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station 31 August 1915 with concussion, then moved to No. 4 Stationery Hospital, St Omer, 13 September 1915, and discharged to duty 20 September 1915.
He was admitted to No. 22 Casualty Clearing Station 1 March 1916 with a fractured metatarsal, and discharged to duty 16 March 1916.
Granted leave 29 July to 8 August 1917 and 21 September to 5 October 1918. He died at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, from broncho-pneumonia due to exposure on battery duty.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 5 November 1914.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
