Corporal, Henry Scott, MM, 4th EYR, killed 22/07/1916, aged 25. His wife, Irene, and 3 children at 14 Fern Avenue, Eastbourne Street, Hull.
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF ARTHUR SCOTT (1873-1958) AND JANE LILLEY SCOTT (1872-1927), OF 6 FLORENCE TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A SHIPPING CLERK. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER AND RULLYMAN FOR THE WILSON LINE.
HE MARRIED IRENE DAUNNEY (1892-1967), AT HULL, IN 1910. HIS WIFE IRENE & CHILDREN HARRY, MURIAL & LILLIE, LIVED AT 14 FERN AVENUE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS PARENTS, ARTHUR SCOTT (1873-1958) & LILY SCOTT (1872-1927), LIVEDAT 6 FLORENCE TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. WITH HIS BEST FRIED ALBERT TAYLOR, WHO COULD NOT ENLIST ON MEDICAL GROUNDS. HE MADE A PACT WITH ALBERT, TO LOOK AFTER HIS WIFE IF HE WAS KILLED.
HENRY SCOTT ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915. HE RECEIVED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR BRAVERY (LONDON GAZETTE, 19/02/1917). PROMOTED TO CORPORAL, IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/07/1916, AGED 25. THE BATTALION WAR DIARY DESCRIBED THIS AS A “QUITE DAY”. ENEMY SHELLED OUR FRONT LINE. 5 OTHER RANKS KILLED AND 4 WOUNDED.”
HE IS BURIED AT LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW IRENE. HIS BEST FRIEND ALBERT, MARRIED IRENE AFTER THE WAR AND THEY HAD FOUR MORE CHILDREN.
Corporal Henry Scott, MM, lived on Hessle Road and died on 22nd of July 1916 on the Ypres Salient aged 25. He left a wife Irene and 3 children, Harry, Lily and Muriel who was my Grandmother. He received the Military Medal during his service. He went to enlist with his best friend Albert Taylor who could not enlist on medical grounds. He said to Albert that if he never came back, would he look after Irene and the children and after the war Albert married Irene and they had 4 more children.
The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. The award was established on 25th March 1916, with retrospective application to 1914, and was awarded to other ranks for “acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire”. The award was discontinued in 1993 when it was replaced by the Military Cross, which was extended to all ranks, while other Commonwealth nations instituted their own award systems in the post war period.
