George Scott (29 September 1885 – 16 August 1916) was an English

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. Scott started his football career with Sunderland District Amateur League sides Braeside and Sunderland West End, before joining

Clapton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a profess ...

in July 1908. He featured regularly throughout the next seven seasons, playing in various positions and scoring an average of five goals per season in all competitions. His most valuable goals included the only goal of the game in Orient's victory over

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on 9 April 1909.Neilson Kaufman & Alan Ravenhill, "Leyton Orient: The Complete Record", Breedon Books, 2006, pp. 249. In 1911, Scott was selected for a London XI to face a Paris XI in France. At the outbreak of

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professional football was suspended, and Scott joined the 17th

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, the "Footballers' Battalion", along with many other Orient players and staff. During the

Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme ( French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place bet ...

, Scott was wounded and taken prisoner, and died at a German military hospital on 16 August 1916.Stephen Jenkins, "They Took the Lead", DDP, 2005, pp. 59. Scott was one of three Orient players killed in the war, along with William Jonas and Richard McFadden. He is buried at St. Souplet British Cemetery,
CWGC Casualty record. a few miles south of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Le Cateau.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, George 1885 births 1916 deaths Footballers from Sunderland English footballers Sunderland West End F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players English Football League players British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme Middlesex Regiment soldiers Association football midfielders Military personnel from County Durham