Name
James Walter Scott
16/11/1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7087
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt, Not on the Ware memorials, Not on the Goffs Oak Memorial
Pre War
James Walter Scott was born on 16th November 1883, in Ware, Hertfordshire, (His birth was registered in the name of Walter James Scott) son of Charles Scott a Licenced Victualler and Elizabeth Scott (nee Radbourne). One of eleven children.
1891 Census records James aged 8, at school, living with his parents, sisters Annie (25), May (10) and brother Thomas (12) at The Rising Sun PH, West Musley, Ware, Herts.
His father Charles Scott died in the early part of 1895, aged 57, the death was registered in Edmonton, Middx.
1901 Census, James (18), is working as a Gardener (not Domestic) living with his widowed mother, three brothers and sister May (22) at 13 Belle Vue Terrace, Gews Corner, Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts.
His mother Elizabeth Scott died in 1908, aged 71, the death was registered in Edmonton, Middx.
1911 Census, James (25), brothers Charles (38), Thomas (29), and sister May (27), are still living at 13 Belle Vue Terrace, Gews Corner, Turners Hill, Cheshunt. James is working as a Nursery Hand.
James married Ellen May Saunders the daughter of Frederick and Sarah Louise Saunders of Cheshunt, Herts, in 1911, the marriage was registered in Edmonton, Middx, they went on to have two children, James Frederick Scott born in 1912, and Ellen Elizabeth Louise born in 1914.
Wartime Service
James enlisted at Hertford, in the Bedfordshire Regiment, issued with the service number 7087. “His service number and the fact that he arrived in France on 11th November 1914, indicates he was possible a member of the Territorial Force when war was declared”. Seeing action on the Western Front he was Killed in Action on 17th May 1915, at the Battle of Festubert, aged 32. (Battle of Festubert 15th to 27th May 1915).
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France to the missing.
Additional Information
Ellen received a widow’s pension of 18/6 a week from 6th December 1915, and his war gratuity of £3. Her brother Lance Corporal 32963 William Saunders Sharpe of the Essex Regiment, died on 3rd December 1917, aged 29, of wounds received in action.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
