Born	1857
Died	1914
Son of William Scott-Moncrief and Hannah Overton

William Scott-Moncrieff

From: http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/12_tree_copse_cemetery.htm Accessed 28th July 2009 Brigadier General William Scott-Moncrieff cmdg. 156th Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division - Killed 28th June 1915, aged 57. - First commissioned into 57th Foot in May 1878, and served in Zulu War and Boer War. Severely wounded at Spion Kop, which left him lame. - Recalled from retirement in 1914, and given command of 156th Brigade. - Killed when his brigade assaulted the Turkish positions. The Bde lost 72 oficers and 1,281 men in this battle, including Lt-Cols H.M.Hannan & J.B.Wilson of the Cameronians, mentioned elsewhere on this page. - Lt-Col W.C.Peebles DSO wrote: " ... he personally led the last two companies [of 1/7th Cameronians] by a forward sap, now marked sap 30, and was killed as the sap began to emerge on to the surface level."