Name
Frederick Herbert Scott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
16968
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Scott was born in the spring of 1895 at Abbots Langley. He was one of five children (three sons and two daughters) born to Frederick (senior) and Clara Scott. In both the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at 48 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley. Frederick (senior) worked as a Carman with a Coal Merchant. At the time of the 1911 Census Frederick (junior) was employed as a Telegraph Messenger.
Frederick (junior) enlisted on 31st August 1914 into the 1st Hertfordshire Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, and was examined at Hertford on 1st September. At enlistment he gave his occupation as Postman, however was employed as a Kitchenman at the Leavesden Asylum. He was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in October 1914, serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment. By December 1914 the Roll of Honour noted that he had transferred to the 4th Bedfordshire’s. Frederick’s Pension Record noted that he was inoculated at Dovercourt on 16th January 1915, and again at White City on 4th March. The Parish Roll of Honour recorded that he had transferred to the 10th Bedfordshire’s in the May 1915 edition of the Parish Magazine.
On 11th August 1915 Frederick embarked for France. By December 1915 he had transferred to the 6th Bedford’s, and on 29th January 1916 was admitted to the 48th Field Ambulance, however the reason for this admission was not noted in the Pension Record. He was transferred to the Base Depot at Etaples on 6th February and re-joined his battalion on 7th April 1916. On 20th November 1916 he was admitted once again to 48th Field Ambulance, suffering with a strained ankle, and he re-joined the battalion again on 22nd November.
Frederick was granted leave between15th and 25th December 1916. On 7th March 1917 he was promoted to the rank of Unpaid Lance Corporal. He was in action on 10th April 1917 and received a gun-shot wound to his left shoulder and chest, and was admitted to the 49th Field Ambulance on 11th April, and was transferred to No 6 Stationary Hospital later that day. He left hospital on 13th April, and returned to the 17th Infantry Base Depot on 25th April after a period at the Cyclist Battalion Depot. His wounding was recorded in the Parish Magazine in May 1917. Frederick re-joined his battalion on 30th August. Frederick was admitted to 57th Field Ambulance on 13th September 1917 with urethritis, and was transferred to No 2 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) where he was diagnosed suffering from gonorrhoea, and eventually moved to No 30 General Hospital, re-joining his battalion on 10th November 1917. He was back at No 30 General Hospital on 30th November, and remained there until 4th January, this time suffering from a recurrence of previous diseases. He remained at No 4 Stationary Hospital at Arques near St Omer through to 19th February 1918 suffering from venereal disease, and was admitted again to No 1 CCS between 1st March and 30th April. He was posted to the 1st Herts on 21st May 1918.
On 23rd August 1918 the 1st Herts attacked at Achiet leGrand, on the Somme, taking a railway cutting, but suffering 29 killed in action and 147 wounded. Frederick received a bullet in his forearm and was transferred back to England, where he recovered at the Military Hospital at Whalley, Lancashire between 27th August and 27th September 1918. On 4th October he joined the Command Depot at Ampthill, and was demobilised to 101 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley on 9th February 1919. The Absent Voter Record of Autumn 1918 listed Frederick serving with the 1st Herts with the rank Lance Corporal, and gave his address at 101 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley. His Pension Record noted that he attended a Medical Board at Watford on 9th October 1919, and was deemed to be 20% disabled, and on 27th March 1920 received a Final Gratuity of £52-10 shillings.
Frederick Scott survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 4th, 6th & 10th Battalions Bedfordshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
