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Name:
Leonard Watson Scott
Regimental Number:
415508
Rank:
Private
Service:
5th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles
Date of Birth:
May 25, 1893
Place of Birth:
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Place of Enlistment:
Valcartier, Quebec
Date of Enlistment:
September 21, 1915
Age at Enlistment:
22
Height:
5 feet, 11 inches
Complexion:
Fresh
Eyes:
Blue
Hair:
Dark Brown
Trade:
Bank Clerk
Martial Status:
Single
Religion:
Church of England
Next of Kin:
Captain Ellery Scott, (Father) Yarmouth, NS
Date of Death:
June 3, 1916
Age at Death:
23
Memorial:
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 30 and 32)
Commemorated on Page 160 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 12
Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial
Leonard was the son of Captain Ellery Scott and Anna Scott of Yarmouth South Main Street, Yarmouth, NS.
Prior to enlistment he was a Bank Clerk at the Bank of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth, NS.
He joined at Valcartier and sailed from Quebec on the SS Saxonia on October 18, 1915 with the 40th
Battalion and disembarked in England on October 28, 1915. At Barmshott he was confirmed in the rank of
Sergeant on November 26, 1915. He moved to East Sandling and on February 7, 1916 he was severely
reprimanded for “wilfully breaking a pane of glass” and on March 10, 1916 he was reduced to the rank of
Private.
He embarked for France with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles on March 15, 1916 and was taken on strength
in the field on March 16. He was killed during the Battle at Ypres on June 3, 1916.
He was one of twenty men with Sergeant Major George Gill ordered to occupy a strong point. While
successful, he was killed by an enemy shell while in a trench on the south side of Maple Corpse on the night
of June 3, 1916.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Library and Archives Canada
Leonard Watson Scott