First World War Medal Pair, Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, and Memorial Plaque to Battery Sergeant Major Alfred Willian Ganley - 146th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
British War Medal - LIEUT. J. M. SCOTT.
Victory Medal - LIEUT. J. M. SCOTT.
Territorial Force War Medal - 2 LIEUT. J. M. SCOTT. R.A.
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal - 5009 C. Q. M. SJT: J. M. SCOTT. FORTH R.G.A.
(x4 Medals - Great Condition)
John Mailler Scott
Born 1884 - North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland
Served 13 years in the volunteers prior to the First World War
Worked in London for the London City Council Architect Department and features in their First World War Roll of Honour - served France as an Officer in the RGA for 15 months
Medal index card states went to France 4th May 1917
Address given as "Craighill", North Queensferry, Fifeshire
Mentioned in the Dunfermline High School Roll of Honour - Photograph taken from there also
Called back up as an officer with the National Defence Companies in 1939 at the start of World War Two
He was later an important Edinburgh Architect and is mentioned in an academic paper as designing several buildings and also mentioned in detail below-
Below is a copy of John Mailler Scott's biography from the Historic Environment Scotland Dictionary of Scottish Architects (1660 - 1980):
"John Mailler Scott was born on 4 February 1884, the son of David Mailler Scott, schoolmaster, and his wife Elizabeth Fulton of Inverkeithing. He was articled to Andrew Muirhead of Dunfermline from 1 January 1900, studying at the Lauder Technical School. On completion of his apprenticeship he moved to Edinburgh as improver to Thomas Duncan Rhind, enabling him to attend classes at Edinburgh School of Art and Heriot-Watt College. He spent the following years as a draughtsman in various offices, and worked for H M Dockyard, Rosyth in 1911 whilst lodging in Inverkeithing. The following year he moved to London to work for the LCC Schools Department.
He joined the Royal Artillery to serve in the First World War, and after the war he ventured to Canada to work in the City Architect's Department of Toronto from 1920 to 1921, but he subsequently returned to Edinburgh to join the City Architect's Department there. He was admitted LRIBA in 1932 (and 28 October 1932 Associate of the Edinburgh Architectural Association) his sole proposer for the former being John Wilson. He appears to have specialised in land surveying and levelling, but is credited with the design of the Type 26 tenement - the ‘broken roof’ model. He was still in the City Architect's Department in 1942 when he witnessed his colleague John Wright Ford's declaration of acceptance of election as LRIBA.
He died at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh on 9 June 1948, survived by his wife Williamina Easson Barr."
https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/apex/r/dsa/dsa/architects?p8_id=204664&session=4365833864114
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AJMS Medals