Date of birth:

July 3rd, 1892 (Meaford/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

1990

Nationality:

Canadian

James Frederick Scott was born Juli 3rd, 1892, in Meaford, Ontario. His father was the owner of a brickyard but James Frederick had little feeling for the factory and became a landowner and cattlebreeder near Oyen, Alberta.
During World War One he served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium. Owing to a pulmonary inflammation he contracted in the trenches he served briefly with the Royasl Flying Corps at the end of the war.
Back in Canada in 1919, he was told at first that his inflammation was so severe that he had a short time left to live. Consequently he decided to spend his remaining days in the jungle west of Sundre, Alberta. The pure and clean air cured him of his disease. Under pressure from his fiancée, Olga Larson, he quit cattlebreeding and took a secretarial course. With this he joined the legal fraternity.
1923 or thereabouts he joined the 15th Alberta Light Horse, the last four years as Commanding Officer.
1939 he became Commanding Officer of the Calgary Highlanders. After mobilisation, the unit was transferred to England to operate as part of the 2nd Canadian Divison from 1940 onwards. 1942 James Frederick Scott returned to Canada to establish the Battle Drill School in British Columbia. 1944 he was placed in command of the A10 Canadian Infantry Training Centre. 1946 he retired as a Colonel.
1988 he terminated his legal career. James Frederick Scott passed away in 1990.

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• - Second Supplement to The London Gazette of 31st December 1943, Issue 36310, dated 1st January 1944