Second Lieutenant Sidney Maurice Scott

Regiment: Coldstream Guards
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 15/09/1916
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France
Plot: Sp. Mem 33.
Information: Second Lieutenant Sidney Maurice Scott, Coldstream Guards, (reported missing, believed killed, now presumed killed in action on 15th September), was the younger and only surviving son of the late Mr. J. Harrison Scott, F.R.C.S.I., of Dublin, and of Mrs. Harrison Scott, of Homefield Road, Wimbledon. He was 19 years of age, and was educated at Winton House, Winchester (Mr. John's) and at Eton (Mr. Hare's). On leaving school he obtained a commission in the Special Reserve, Coldstream Guards (September 15, 1915), and he left for the front in May of this year.