Cecil Edgar Scott (1897 - 1918)

Born 6 Jun 1897 in Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Died 8 Aug 1918 at age 21 in France

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Biography

Cecil Edgar Scott enlisted at 18 years of age in the Canadian Infantry during World War I in 1916. He fought as part of the 160th Batallion, "D" Company, then the 14th Batallion (Quebec Regiment). He was killed in action in the Battle of Amiens in France.

He died on the first day of an Allied battle on the Western Front which became known as the Hundred Days Offensive and is believed to have ultimately led to an Allied Forces victory.

Burial Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme, Somme, France.

Sources

• "Ontario Births, 1869-1911," database with images, FamilySearch birth record photo : 15 January 2016, Cecil Edgar Scott, 06 Jun 1897; citing Birth, Kineardine Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,906,131.

• 1901 Census of Canada, Ontario, Bruce West County, Kincardine Township (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 5 line 48 Scott Cecil E age 3
• "Canada Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch [1] : 13 November 2014, Cecil E Scott in household of Robert B Scott, C, Bruce (west/ouest), Ontario, Canada; citing p. 5, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

• 1911 Census of Canada, Ontario, Bruce West County, Kincardine Township (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 6 line 10 Scott Edward Cecil age 14
• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch [2] : 2 March 2015, Edward Cecil Scott in entry for Baird Robert Scott, 1911; citing Census, Bruce North Sub-Districts 1-60, Ontario, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,692.

• Toil, Tears & Triumph: A History of Kincardine Township by the Kincardine Township Historical Society, 1990. Wanita Fletcher editor, p. 258

• Canadian Great War Project [3]

• Canadian Virtual War Memorial [4]

• Bruce Remembers [5]

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 March 2018), memorial page for PVT Cecil Edgar Scott (unknown–8 Aug 1918), Find A Grave Find A Grave: Memorial #56040402, citing Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-Saint-Pierre, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France ; Maintained by CWGC/ABMC (contributor 6) .

• Wikipedia - Battle of Amiens (1918) [6]