The Archive · 1923

Lieut. Preston Scott

Home papers report the death at Chatham, as the result of revolver wounds, of Lieut. Harold d'Arcy Preston Scott, r.£., only son of Dr. and Mrs. Scott, late of Hongkong. The deceased, who was 2 years of age. was found' in a hutment at Chatham in a dying condition, and was taken to hospital, where he succumbed. He was found by a brother officer lying in his room in Chatham Line Barracks on November 18 with a wound im his head and a revolver by his side. He was taken to hospital, where he died a few hours later, and at the inquest on. November 90 a verdict of

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