Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Scott of High Street, Uppingham, Rutland, and the husband of Nellie Scott. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade. Previous to enlisting he had been connected for several years with the Volunteers and Leicestershire Yeomanry, having only left the latter after the period of training in the spring of 1913. At the outbreak of war he joined his old regiment as a volunteer, and on the 10th September went into training at Leicester and Melton for a few weeks. In October he joined the Yeomanry at Diss, and while out scouting with the late Major Hanbury, he had the misfortune to get kicked by a carthorse when riding up to take a fence after Major Hanbury, and broke his right leg below the knee. He was taken to the V.A.D. Hospital at Diss, and from there was sent to the 1st General Hospital at Cambridge, where he remained about six weeks. He went home for a period of convalescence, and then returned to Leicester, and from there again to Melton for further training. He embarked for France on Whit Monday, 1915, and through the winter of 1915-16 served with the infantry in the trenches. In April 1917 he was invalided home with septic poisoning, in his hand and arm, and was sent to Lincoln Hospital, and subsequently to Skegness for about six weeks. After the usual leave he was sent to the Cavalry Depot at Aldershot, and engaged chiefly in riding cavalry remounts through the winter of 1917-18. He was married on the 4th February to Miss Nellie Cranfield, the youngest daughter of Mr W. Cranfield of Sherrington. In March he again embarked for France at a time when things were looking critical. He was transferred to the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and with this regiment served until late October, when he met with an injury to his foot, and was sent down to the base. From there he was taken to the 2nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Treport, where he developed influenza and bronchial pneumonia, to which he succumbed on the 3rd November.