Pilot Officer William Alfred Dean Scott

Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Alfred Dean Scott

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  Inscription

  Pilot Officer WILLIAM ALFRED DEAN SCOTT is commemorated on this panel of the Ottawa Memorial. He is one of 37 members of the RCAF who were lost at sea when the ship Amerika, which was bringing them to England to take part in European operations, was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-306 south of Cape Farewell, Greenland in the early hours of the morning of April 22,1943. Of the twenty Pilot Officers who are commemorated on this panel, eight others, A. H. Pearson, G.W. Pidduck, T.J. Ritchie, J.N. Rombough, W.O. Black, John Tyler, J.H. Warren and K.B.Woods also lost their lives when the Amerika was sunk. Close
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  Dedicatory Inscription at the Ottawa Memorail

  Dedicatory inscription at the Ottawa Memorial Close
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  The Ottawa Memorial

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  Newspaper Clipping

  Pilot Officer WILLIAM ALFRED DEAN SCOTT was listed as 'missing as a result of enemy action at sea' in the 570th R.C.A.F. casualty list of the war, released on May 8, 1943 and published in the Globe and Mail on May 10, 1943. The article, published 19 days after the actual event, speculates on what happened, as no further details were made available at the time. It is now known that the men were lost at sea when the ship Amerika, which was bringing them to England to take part in European operations was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-306, south of Cape Farewell, Greenland in the early hours of the morning of April 22, 1943. 42 of the ship¿s crew and and seven gunners were also lost at sea. 30 crew members, eight gunners and 16 R.C.A.F Officers survived and were picked up by HMS Asphodel and landed at Greenock, Scotland. Close
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  Newspaper Clipping

  Part 2 of list of RCAF Officers 'missing as a result of enemy action at sea' in the 570th R.C.A.F. casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on May 10, 1943. Close
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  Newspaper Clipping

  Pilot Officer WILLIAM ALFRED DEAN SCOTT and the 36 other members of the R.C.A.F. who perished with him when the ship Amerika was torpedoed and sank on April 22, 1943 were listed as ¿Now presumed dead¿ in the 798th casualty list of Department of National For Air published in the Globe and Mail on February 7, 1944. Close
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  Amerika

  Photograph of the Amerika. The ship departed Halifax on April 14,1943 bound for Liverpool, England as part of convey HX-234, and was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-306 south of Cape Farewell, Greenland at 01.54 hours on April 22, 1943. Pilot Officer WILLIAM ALFRED DEAN SCOTT and 36 other members of the RCAF perished. 42 of the ship¿s crew and and seven gunners also perished. 30 crew members, eight gunners and 16 RCAF Officers survived and were picked up by HMS Asphodel and landed at Greenock, Scotland. U-306 met the same fate six months later when it was sunk on October 31, 1943 in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Whitehall and the British corvette HMS Geranium and all of the crew of 51 perished. (Source: Uboat.net) Close
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  Memorial

  Pilot Officer William Alfred Dean Scott as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. Close
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  Memorial

  Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. Close