James Scott-Elliot


James Scott-Elliot was a senior British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Scott-Elliot was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers on 1 February 1923.
He was deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force at the start of the Second World War. After being evacuated from France in June 1940, he became commanding officer of the 6th Battalion, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in April 1942 and landed with his battalion in North Africa in December 1942. He went on to serve as commander of the 17th Indian Brigade and then as commander of the 167th Brigade in Italy during the Italian campaign of the war. His brigade was the first unit to cross the River Po on the route north through Italy.
After the war he became Deputy Director of Military Training at the War Office in 1948, Deputy Commander of the 51st Division in 1950 and then General Officer Commanding 51st Division in November 1952
before retiring in March 1956.
He served as colonel of the King's Own Scottish Borderers from 1954 to 1961 and as Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries from 1962 to 1967.

Family

In 1932 he married Cecil Margaret Du Buisson; they has one son and two daughters. After being divorced from his first wife, he married Fay Courtauld in 1971.

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