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Private Robert SCOTTING, G/13234, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 17th July 1917, age 34.

Born Welney, Norfolk, son of *George & Sarah Ann Scotting, of 2, Mill Cottage, Ouhvell, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

*1910 December, died age 68, Downham Registration District.


1911 Census - Suspension Bridge, Welney, Wisbech, Norfolk - Sarah Ann Scotting, head, age 65, widow, beer house keeper, (worker crossed through), born Welney, Norfolk; Robert Scotting, son, age 23, single, farm labourer, worker, born Welney, Norfolk; Sarah Scotting, daughter, age 20, single, born Welney, Norfolk; William Burton, boarder, age 69, single, farm labourer, worker, born Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire; Thomas Holland, boarder, age 37, single, farm labourer, worker, born Londonthorpe, Lincolnshire; Henry Hollis, boarder, age 59, single, pedler, own account, born Waltham, Hertfordshire.


Enlisted Littleport, Cambridgeshire, age 28 years & 5 months, height 5ft 4½ inches. Resided Carpenters Arms Inn, Suspension Bridge, Welney, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Formerly labourer.

Home 20th November 1915 to 12th September 1916; BEF 13th September 1916 to 17th July 1917.

20th November 1915, enlisted; 21st November 1915, to Army Reserve; 11th April 1916, mobilized; 13th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th September 1916, posted BEF; 13th September 1916, Infantry Base Depot; 29th September 1916, posted 6th Battalion,  Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th December 1916, wounded, at Duty; 21st April 1917, attached 12th Division Company; 7th June 1917, rejoined Battalion, "D" Company; 17th July 1917, posted missing.

16th September 1919, Statement of Relatives, (completed by S A Scotting, mother) - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, deceased; Mother,  Sarah Ann Scotting, Carpenters Arms, Welney, Wisbech; Brothers - none; Sisters - Hannah Wilson, age 51, Nottingham; Susan Lawrence, age 46, Ely; Rebecca Keeley, age 44, Welney; Lydia Goodger, age 42, Upwell; Elizabeth Aspland, age 39, Littleport; Georgina Layton, age 34, Littleport; Sarah Malkin, age 28, Welney.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7., France. / Welney, Norfolk, War Memorial


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