Second Lieutenant William Samuel SCRUBY

Second Lieutenant William Samuel Scruby{gallery}2nd Lt W S Scruby{/gallery}12th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Formerly Private 11338 Coldstream Guards
Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme, France and Flanders, 29th June 1916 aged 37

Commemorated: Thiepval Cemetery, Somme, France. Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B
Awarded: 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medals
Son of [the late] Rev Williams J and Alice Scruby of 37 Westbourne Road, Luton
NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments
Other Memorials: Luton Roll of Honour

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Born Jan Qtr 1891 at Newbury, Berks
Lived at 74 Wenlock Street, Luton [1901]
Lived at 9 & 10 Market Place, Nuneaton; worked as an assistant [1911]
Employed as a draper’s assistant [1911]
Disembarked in France 22 Dec 1914

A Short Biography from World War I LutonHe joined the Coldstream Guards in the ranks as a Private (11338) at the outbreak of war and only received his commission three months before his death in recognition of meritorious conduct in the field. He was gazetted to the Middlesex Regiment. Second Lt Scruby was the eldest son of the Rev William J.T. Scruby, who was minister of High Town Methodist Church from 1899 to 1908. Rev Scruby died in Hinckley, Leics, in 1911, but at the time of his son’s death, his widow, Alice, was living at 37 Westbourne Road, Luton.