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Percy Herbert Scott

In memory of:

Private Percy Herbert Scott

August 8, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

642072

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Division:

116th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

September 29, 1897

Son of Herbert and Frances Elizabeth Scott, of Orillia, Ontario. Born in England.

Commemorated on Page 497 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

A. 53.

Location:

Domart-sur-la-Luce is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce on the road from Amiens to Roye. Hourges is a hamlet on the same road a little south-east of the village and HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Cenotaph– Private Percy Herbert Scott is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Cenotaph– Private Percy Herbert Scott is also commemorated on the WWI cenotaph in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper clipping– Orillia Times, 22 Aug 1918, photo in 29 Aug 1918 issue.
  • Other– Tribute Slide to Pte. P. Scott prepared by Steve Glover, Barrie Legion Br. 147
  • Photo of Percy Scott– Percy is the young man with his mother and father and sisters.  His parents moved to Orilia, Ontario from Margate, England in 1901

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