Captain John Scatcherd Laycock Tablet

A tablet at Grace Church on-the-Hill was dedicated to the memory of Captain John Scatcherd Laycock who was killed in the First World War. Laycock was born in Buffalo, New York on 6 December 879, son of Hartley and Annie Laycock; the family later moved to Toronto, Ontario. Laycock was a sales manager and a member of the 48th Highlanders militia when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 28 August 1915. He became a captain in the 15th Battalion. At the Somme on 24 September 1916, he received a gunshot wound to the back from which he recovered. However, on 11 June 1917, while attending to a wounded man of the 10th Battalion at Messines, he was struck in the head by shrapnel from an exploding shell, which killed him instantly.