Name/Title
Original signed lithograph printed Poem "Impregnable" by Canon Frederick George Scott - Father of Captain Henry Hutton Scott 87th Bn CGG KIA 1916Description
Part of the Lieutenant Michael A. Hayes-Rivet (MHR) Trust Collection
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Lieutenant-Colonel Canon Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Scott published 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry. Canon Scott was a British imperialist who wrote many hymns to the British Empire— eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I. Many of his poems use the natural world symbolically to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Frederick George Scott was the father of poet F. R. Scott.
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CANADIAN GRENADIER GUARDS:
Canon FG Scott had three (3) family members serving with the 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF
- Captain Henry Hutton Scott (Son) - Killed in action with 87th Bn.
- Captain Horace Evelyn Scott (Nephew) - Served with 87th Bn.
- Private George Scott (Nephew) - Killed in action with 87th Bn.
Canon Frederick George Scott has been called the best loved man in the CEF. He has an excellent memoir The Great War As I Saw It. In the book he describes the sucessful search for the buried body if his son Captain Henry Hutton Scott (87th Battalion Canadian Grenadier Guards) who was killed on October 21 while attacking Regina Trench near Courcelette. Captain H.H. Scott was in same company as Sgt. Alexander McClintock, DCM and is buried at Baupaume Post Cemetery, along with fellow CGG Officer and their commanding officer Major John Simon Lewis.
Sgt Alexander McClintock assisted Canon Scott in locating his son's body and describes the incident in his book, Best o'Luck, published many years before Scott's book which came long after Sgt McClintock's death.
Quoted by a veteran in 1938 .... “I remember a sad incident at Poziers on the Somme in 1916 when the Canon organized a stretcher party to bring in the body of his son Captain Henry Hutton Scott from No Man’s Land. When Fritz spotted the party he opened up, so the Canon sent the party back to the trench for cover. He found a shovel, dug the grave and buried the lad, then read the burial service and finished by erecting a cross. I heard he received the D.S.O. for this.Created By
Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.Create Date
February 12, 2022Updated By
Lieutenant Michael Hayes-Rivet, retired.Update Date
September 28, 2026
