Name

Robert Scott.

Description

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate relating to Private Robert Scott.

Life Story

Name: Robert Scott.

Service Number: 8493.

Rank: Private.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion.

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Born: County Down.

Died: 26th August 1914.

Address: 32 Bracken Street, Belfast

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Robert Scott, nephew of Mrs Olive Campbell, was connected to 32 Bracken Street, Woodvale, Greater Shankill, Belfast

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Robert joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 23rd August 1914.

Robert was a Private in A Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, when he was Killed on the 26th August 1914

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A local news paper states.

News is anxiously awaited regarding the Private Robert Scott (8493), A Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was last seen by a comrade at the Battle of Mons, wounded August, 1914, and has not been heard of since. Information will be thankfully received by his aunt, Mrs Olive Campbell, 32 Bracken Street, Belfast

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This article was repeated within local newspapers.

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Roberts Soldiers Effects were left to his father Jeremiah.

Dependant Pension Application Forms show his father as claimant. They also show that he now lived in Killeshandra, Cavan

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He is Remembered at La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

To Remember Is To Honour.