Lindsay Buchanan Scott
As can be seen from the Commonwealth war graves information below Lindsay lived with his wife and children at Ormdale Lodge, Elham. Bill Watson remembers the house, now named Morton House and he accompanied me when I took these pictures of the property. Bill especially remembers which house it was as one day a heard of cows trampled the lawn and Mrs Scott was none too pleased!
Photographs taken by B.J.Badham 2001
Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Website
In Memory of
Lindsay Buchanan Scott
Lieutenant Colonel
1st Bn., North Staffordshire Regiment
attd Depot,, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
who died on
Thursday, 14th November 1918. Age 54.
Additional Information:
Order of the Medijieh (Egypt) 2nd Class. Son of John Lindsay Scott, and Mary Scott, of "Mollance," Castle
Douglas, Dumfriesshire; husband of S. M. Scott, of Ormdale Lodge, Elham, Canterbury, Kent.
Served in the South African and Soudan Campaigns.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE, Seine-Maritime, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Div. 62. IV. B. 2.
Location:
Ste. Marie Cemetery is one of the town cemeteries, but it is actually situated in the commune of Graville-St.
Honorine. It stands on the ridge overlooking Le Havre from the north and is north of the N.182.
Historical Information:
During the 1914-18 war Le Havre was one of the ports at which the British Expeditionary Force
disembarked in August 1914, and, except for a short interval during the German advance in 1914, it remained No. 1 Base throughout the war. By the end of May, 1917, it contained 3 general and 2 stationary hospitals, and 4 convalescent depots. During the latter part of the 1939-45 war Le Havre was used as a supply and reinforcement base. There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and 350, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. In addition, special memorial records the names of 144 who lost their lives when the hospital ships 'Galeka' and 'Salta' and the transport ship 'Normandy' were sunk in the Channel by the enemy, between
1916-18 and whose bodies were not recovered.
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