Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Second Lieutenant N. S. Scott, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action at Ypres on 23 April 1915
1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. N. S. Scott. K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. N. S. Scott); Memorial Plaque (Norman Sawers Scott); Memorial Scroll ‘2nd. Lt. Norman Sawers Scott, K.O.S.Bs.’; together with a silver K.O.S.B. cap badge and a miniature coloured portrait of the recipient, extremely fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant I. A. S. Scott, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, on which date his battalion suffered over 550 casualties
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. I. A. S. Scott); Memorial Plaque (Ian Archibald Sawers Scott); Memorial Scroll ‘2/Lieut. Ian Archibald Sawers Scott, K.O. Scottish Borderers’; together with a miniature coloured portrait of the recipient, extremely fine

Three: Captain W. E. S. Scott, Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. E. Sawers Scott); British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service, unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar; together with two bronze R.A.M.C. cap badges, extremely fine

The entire lot all mounted and housed in an impressive and heavy tooled leather-bound and initialled triptych-style display frame, this in extremely good condition (lot) £1,800-£2,200

Norman Sawers Scott was commissioned second lieutenant in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 31 October 1914, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 November 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres on 23 April 1915, aged 19, and is buried in Bedford House Cemetery, France.

Ian Archibald Sawers Scott, brother of the above, was commissioned second lieutenant in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 1 June 1915, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, aged 19, whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, on which dated the battalion was involved in the attack in front of Beaumont-Hamel - swept by intense enemy machine gun fire the battalion suffered total casualties that day of 552. He is buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsaet, France.

William Edward Sawers Scott, M.D., father of the above, served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from March 1918, and survived the war, being discharged on 23 March 1919. He died on 31 January 1923, aged 62.