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Name: SCOTT, Francis Caleb
Birth Date: 1875 Kimberley, S. Africa
Death Date: 10.3.1915 killed in action at Loitokitok
First Date: 1904
Last Date: 1915
Area: 1914 Masongaleni
Book Reference: Gazette, North, Leader14, Web
War Service: E.Af. Intelligence Dept.
General Information:
Gazette - 4/8/15 - Probate & Admin. - Francis Calet [sic] Scott, killed Laitokitok on 10/3/15
North - arr. Mombasa from Johannesburg 12/4/1904; arr. Mombasa from Delagoa Bay 29/11/1904; one of 86 signatures on a petition to the FO objecting to a proposed Zionist settlement in EA Feb-April 1905
Web - Intelligence - F.C. Scott - He may have first served in 'B' Squadron of the EAMR. He was killed in action at Epiron on 10 March 1915. Whilst Major Lyall was out reconnoitring WO1 Scott deployed his Masai scouts but stayed in camp as he felt sick (he may even have given himself a morphine injection as a pain-reliever). When a Schutztruppe force attacked the camp WO1 Scott told the carriers to escape and he himself was last seen with a few sepoys surrounded by German Askari.
FindaGrave Warrant Officer Class I F C Scott Birth unknown Death 10 Mar 1915 Burial Nairobi British and Indian Memorial Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Memorial ID 22747384