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Captain Claud William Stewart SCOTT
2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment Date of birth: 21st October 1877 Date of death: 27th June 1956 Died aged 78 Unknown
Claud William Stewart Scott was born at Madras in India on the 21st of October 1877 the son of the Reverend Canon William Scott and Emily Violet Scott of Madras. He was educated at Blair Lodge School in Scotland before entering Trinity College Dublin as a pensioner in June 1896. He left Trinity in 1897 but returned in 1904 and graduated with a third class BA in June 1906. He was a former teacher at Hazelwood School. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment on the 4th of November 1914. In 1915 he gained a special certificate from the Grenade and Field Engineering School in Tynemouth and was placed in charge of the Bombing School at Skegness. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 25th of August 1917, with precedence from the 1st of June 1916. He did not serve overseas. He was married by his father at St Peter’s Church, Cranleigh Gardens to Mary Hamilton (nee Porter) on the 22nd February 1916. The boys from Hazelwood sent him a silver cigarette case as a wedding present. They had a daughter, Beatty Hamilton, and lived at 76 Walton Street, Kensington in London. After the war he became the director of a motor engineering company. He died at home.