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Roxburghshire / Re: SCOTT's of Hawick
« on: Tuesday 29 December 15 08:22 GMT (UK) »
Concerning Richard Turnbull Scott born Hawick 1915.
This person was my late Father. He died in 1974. He had married Christina Grace Strachan in 1951 and had four sons, i.e. Richard, Christopher John, Francis William and Michael Strachan.
Dad had been a Captain in the Royal Engineers in Crete (Army No, 151774) and had been captured and sent to Oflag v11-B (POW No. 3338). A story persists that they were so hungry that they ate one of the guard dogs.
After war he became a very senior Civil Engineer in Nigeria (Chief Civil Engineer Northern Nigeria) subsequently being awarded O.B.E. and F.I.C.E. before his return to England in 1966. We subsequently lived in Newcastle upon Tyne until his death in 1974. Our mother died in 2005 aged 86.
This person was my late Father. He died in 1974. He had married Christina Grace Strachan in 1951 and had four sons, i.e. Richard, Christopher John, Francis William and Michael Strachan.
Dad had been a Captain in the Royal Engineers in Crete (Army No, 151774) and had been captured and sent to Oflag v11-B (POW No. 3338). A story persists that they were so hungry that they ate one of the guard dogs.
After war he became a very senior Civil Engineer in Nigeria (Chief Civil Engineer Northern Nigeria) subsequently being awarded O.B.E. and F.I.C.E. before his return to England in 1966. We subsequently lived in Newcastle upon Tyne until his death in 1974. Our mother died in 2005 aged 86.