Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Sapper C. C. Scott, Canadian Engineers, later commissioned Lieutenant in the 27th Battalion, and killed in action in the attack on Fresnoy in May 1917, when Lieutenant Combe was posthumously awarded the 27th first Victoria Cross.

Military Medal, G.V.R. (652 Sapr. C. C. Scott. 6/F. Co: Can: Eng:) together with Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (Lieut. C. C. Scott) extremely fine (2) £500-600

M.M. London Gazette 10 August 1916. The recommendation states:

‘For conspicuous gallantry on 3rd April 1916, when in charge of a working party of 50, a machine-gun was turned on the trench, killing a sapper who was assisting him, and wounding another of his working party. L/Cpl Scott had the wounded man carried to the dressing station, he rallied the remainder of the working party and got them to work again, directing operations from the top of the parapet. On 25th April 1916, at St Eloi in company with another N.C.O. he made a dangerous but successful reconnaissance of a long stretch of our trenches, many of them obliterated by the enemy’s bombardment, and of an unoccupied crater in “No Man’s Land”. During his return his companion was fatally wounded by a shell and L/Cpl Scott attempted to bind up the wound, and, under severe fire, assisted to carry him to the dressing station where he died.’

Campbell Craig Scott was born at Guelph, Ontario, on 24 May 1891. He enlisted at Kingston, Ontario, into No. 5 Company, Canadian Engineers, and served in England, April to September 1915, and afterwards in France. Awarded the Military Medal for bravery in April 1916, he was appointed Temporary Lieutenant in the 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed in action on 3 May 1917, in the attack on Fresnoy, when Lieutenant Combe was posthumously awarded the 27th first Victoria Cross.

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