Is this Lt. J.H. Scott Douglas 2/21 who was killed at Kwamagwasa?

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Is this Scott Douglas? Bottom is a confirmed photograph of SD.

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There’s a likeness, but I would say no.

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Hi Isandula

I would say not SD, hair parting, nose and ears not the same.

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Subject: Is this Lt J.H.Scott Douglas 2/21st Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:37 am

I'll make it 3 out of 3 ...that's a no from me as well .
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RB,

No the facing colour is not dark enough, and the grenade collar badges are absent.

JB

Subject: Is this Lt J.H.Scott Douglas 2/21st Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:42 pm

Hi JY
Are you back ? . If so how was it ? .
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Gary,

No we are now in the Punjab.

JY

Subject: Is this Lt J.H.Scott Douglas 2/21st Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:55 pm

Hi JY
Seeing as the grog was so expensive in Tiger country did you go out and bag one or two ( by camera of course ! ) hahahahaha
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Bagged one! The grog is ridiculously priced in most places, it was cheaper in The Himalayas though!

JY

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Talking of Tigers, I have a map in my collection compiled by Lt Col MacPherson while stalking Tigers in India. He subsequently wrote up his experience in the Bombay Natural History Society Journal.
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" One afternoon out stalking I got a snap-shot at a tiger as he bounded away through some long grass, and on following up to see if I had wounded him I came across a doe sambhar which the tiger had been eating when I disturbed him. As I had missed the tiger, I thought it highly probable that he would return to the kill very soon, and so I determined to wait for him. I had, however, only one man with me and no means at hand for making a machan."

I therefore sent this man back to my camp, some two miles away, for the necessary help, and in the meantime I climbed up into a tree near the dead sambhar. In a very short time a jackal appeared, which I had excellent opportunities of observing, as he was quite unconscious of my presence, and passed me time after time within a few yards. There was nothing in any
way peculiar about him, and judging from his condition and the glossiness of his coat he was evidently in excellent health. He was, however, with that curious instinct which these animals seem to possess, fully aware that the tiger had not finished his meal and that he might be expected back shortly. He therefore would not touch the carcase, but contented himself
with wandering round and round it, sometimes coming quite near, at other times making circles of about 100 yards radius.

In one of these peregrinations he came suddenly on to the tiger, who had evidently not been much alarmed at my shot, and was creeping back to the kill through some low bushes. The jackal seemed much startled, bounded back a few yards, and then gave
vent to the peculiar " Kol-Bhalu " cry.

T. MACPHERSON, Lieut.-Colonel.

Poona, April, 1898."

Steve

» Captain James Scott (1821-1890), born Edinburgh, Scotland;enlisted as Private Royal Engineers
» Lieutenant James Henry Scott-Douglas.
» Lt. F. Scott Natal Carbineers, killed in action at Isandlwana