Roll of Honour
Private
Walter Ramsay Scott
MA
Walter Ramsay Scott was born on the 28th April 1893 in Pollockshaws, Renfrewshire. He was the son of Robert Scott, a Cashier, and Margaret K. Scott (née Dunlop) and lived at 23 Barrington Drive, Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
Walter enrolled for University in 1913 and attended for two full years of his Ordinary Arts degree but left part way through his final year. Nevertheless, under a special First World War Military Service regulation he successfully applied for exemptions from final examinations and was awarded his MA on the 26th June 1916.
He served as a Private with the 11th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders for 15 months. On the 13th July 1917 he was serving with the Machine Gun Section at Zillebeke, Belgium, when they experienced heavy fire. According to the War Diary for that day, Private Walter Ramsay Scott was one of six killed and seventy-four wounded in this action. He was 24. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium.
Comments and Citations
University of Glasgow Registry and Roll of Honour records.
Biography: Service information contributed by Jan Van der Fraenen, The Passchendaele Archives of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele