Private William Thomas Scott
8th Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
Date of Birth: 1896
Date of Death: 4 November 1918 aged 22
Buried: Remembered on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France
Awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
Private William Thomas Scott age 22.
Listed on War Graves Commission and army records as the son of Mrs Agnes Scott, 2 Daimonds Lane, Teignmouth.
No further trace and place of birth left blank.
According to his only military record William enlisted at Exeter with the Devonshire Regiment, service number 1531.
Somerset Light Infantry Cap Badge.
He was transferred to 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, service number 29961. William is listed as having died on 4 November 1918.
Remembered on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
A war gratuity of £23 and 10 shillings was left to his mother.
William died on the 4th November 1918, on the same day that Wilfred Owen, the famous war poet died. One week later later, at the eleventh hour of 11 November, the Armistice went into effect. The telegram telling Wilfred Owen's mother of his death arrived as the church bells were ringing in the Armistice, presumably William's mother would have heard her sad news around the same time.
