01 October 2018

Geoffrey Howard Scott: CWGC Beechwood

Born 29 May 1898 in Ottawa, Geoffrey Howard Scott was the eldest child of George Inglis Scott and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Ross.

A 20 year old student when he enlisted on 4 June 1918, a cadet sapper with the Canadian Engineers, Service No:2013321, he died at the Engineers Training Deport, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec on 1 October 1918 of pneumonia during the influenza pandemic.

He was buried on 3 October at Beechwood Cemetery in Section. 21. Lot 26NW.

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