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.