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Military service
Service number:
410399
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
March 3, 1895
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
July 23, 1915
Barriefield Camp, Ontario
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Margaret Scott of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Private Neil John Scott, who died during service with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private William Scott
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping 2
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM SCOTT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916, Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
Digital gallery of
Private William Scott
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 160 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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