Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Third Officer D. A. Scott, Mercantile Marine, who was killed in action when the S.S. Clan Macfadyen was torpedoed and sunk by U-508 off Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea on 26 November 1942

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with the named Minister of Transport enclosure (Douglas Anderson Scott), good very fine (3) £70-£90

Douglas Anderson Scott was born at Pilming, Gloucestershire, on 21 May 1919 and served during the Second World War as a Third Officer in the Mercantile Marine. He was killed in action on 26 November 1942, when his ship, the S.S. Clan Macfadyen was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-508 in the Caribbean Sea, 95 miles south-east of Galeota Point, Trinidad, whilst en route from Trinidad to the U.K. with a cargo of sugar- out of the total complement of 92 men, there were only 10 survivors. Scott is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.

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