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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: RWTaylor on Friday 16 April 21 07:35 BST (UK)
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My Great Uncle David Denoon MM died in Germany in 1919 of 'Spanish' flu. He was serving with the 1/4 Gordon Highlanders, having been transferred from the 6/7 Gordons earlier in the year. In the Battalion War Diary, it records, for 4 June 1919 : "Military Funeral of No. 40914 A/Sergt. Denoon D. (from No. 11 Stationery Hospital), formerly Scout Sergt. Of the Battalion."
Could someone help me to understand what a Scout Sergeant was/did? Is it linked in any way to the fact that Davie joined up originally in the Lovat Scouts?
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London Gazette
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/12828/page/1011
See 8445 P Breach
To search the Gazette for "scout sergeant" click on "All notices" (see blue line), put "scout sergeant" in Text Search (include the " " as part of key) and click on Update results. Several reports of scout "activities".
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I think a unit of snipers in the Lovat Scouts was eight? men under a sergeant!
Skoosh.
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Thanks very much - the London Gazette reference is very useful (and the explanation of how to search was excellent - just what is needed for someone who doesn't know their way around) Thank you very much.
RWT