SCOTT, ROBERT,
Private, was born at Haslingden, Lancashire, on 4 June 1874. On 2 February
1895, he entered the Manchester Regiment , with which he was serving in
Natal when the Boer War broke out in October 1899. He went through the
whole Siege of Ladysmith without being once absent from duty. He won the
Victoria Cross, with which he was decorated by Lord Kitchener on 8 June,
1902, at Pretoria. He was serving under Lieutenant R Hunt-Grubbe during the
great attack on Ladysmith on 6 January 1900, when he won his Cross, which
was gazetted 26 July 1901: "R Scott, Private, and J Pitts, Private, 1st
Battalion The Manchester Regiment. During the attack on Caesar's Camp,
in Natal, on the 6th January 1900, these two men occupied a sangar, on the
left of which all our men had been shot down and their positions occupied by
Boers, and held their post for fifteen hours without food or water, all the
time under an extremely heavy fire, keeping up their fire and a smart
look-out, though the Boers occupied some sangars on their immediate left
rear. Private Scott was wounded". Robert Scott became a
Quartermaster-Sergeant.
