David Scott

Seaman David Emmanuel Scott was a Jamaican sailor of the Royal Naval Reserve who died during the First World War.
He was born on 5 April 1865, in Westmoreland, Jamaica,Ancestry.com. Web: UK, Royal Naval Reserve Service Records Index, 1860-1955 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. the son of Richard Scott.
Scott joined the Royal Navy in 1892, and at the outbreak of war served with the Royal Naval Reserve. While assigned to HMS Hogue, Scott died on 24 August 1914, drowning in a boating accident at Scapa Flow.HMS Hogue, livebaitsqn-soc.info. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
He is buried in Holy Trinity New Churchyard, Queenborough. Scott married Jane Pilgram in 1905. Their daughter, Ethel, became the first black woman to represent Great Britain as a sprinter.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Scott, David Emmanuel, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
Category:1895 births
Category:1914 deaths
Category:Jamaican military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Jamaican descent
Category:Royal Naval Reserve
Category:Buried in England
Category:Seamen