SCOTT H.
Horace Scott
Private 14206
2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
Horace Scott died on 1st July 1916, aged 25 years, and was remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and was one of ten local men killed on the same day.
He was born c1892 to parents Walter and Harriett Scott. Walter Scott was a Stonemason, and a native of Sutton-in-Ashfield, who married Harriett Hardy at St Mary's Church, Sutton in December 1884. On the 1901 census, the family were living at Eastfield Side, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Horace Scott was also the husband of Ellen Scott, of 13 Phoenix Street, Forest Side, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Lincolnshire Regiment’
SCOTT
Horace. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 2nd Bn.,
Lincolnshire Regiment, Private
14206, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 1st July 1916. Formerly
13849 Leics Regt.
Research by Heather Faulkes
