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Major
General Thomas Scott
Major General Thomas Scott was born in 1867 and joined
the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1888. At an unusually early
age he transferred to the Indian Staff Corps in 1890. He
spent his early service on the northwest frontier
including Waziristan, and also served in Zanzibar and
Uganda during the local ‘wars’ there, being awarded a
DSO and a brevet majority in the latter colony.
In 1900 he was in China, in which year he was appointed
CIE. Still a major he was on the staff of HQ India from
1904-08. From 1909-12 he was Assistant Secretary to the
important Committee of Imperial Defence in London.
He commanded the 57th Rifles Punjab Frontier
Force 1912-14 before spending much of WW1 as Military
Secretary to the C-in-C India from 1914-17. After that
he saw some active service in Mesopotamia and East
Africa (where he was a temporary Major General.) He was
made CB in 1917.
After the war he was a brigade commander in India from
1919-20, before being appointed Resident later in 1920.
He was about five years in Aden at the end of which he
was awarded his ‘K’ on promotion to Lieutenant General.
He retired in 1926 and died in 1937.
The Scott Market, Maalla in
the mid 1920's. The plaque on the gate post reads '1924'
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