HE LOVED THE FIELDS
HIS PEOPLE AND HIS FLOCKS
A GENTLE SHEPHERD HE

PRIVATE ROBERT SCOTT

MACHINE GUN CORPS

24TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 28

BURIED: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


Robert Scott's father has composed a beautiful inscription for his son, a "gentle shepherd" who looked after his flocks in the fields of Arnmannoch, Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, and died of wounds in a base hospital in Etaples.