On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Mate Walter John Scott serving on S.S. Clintonia (North Shields) with the Mercantile Marine who died 01/08/1915.

The son of Mary Wright Scott, of 6, Ocean View, Whitley Bay, and the late John Scott. He was born at Gateshead.

In Hartley South Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In
?Sweetest
Memory
of
Mary Wright
relict of John Scott
who passed away Sept. 16th 19?

also Walter John
only son of above
who died through enemy action Aug. 1st 1915

Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:

Walter John SCOTT
Mercantile Marine Chief Officer S.S. Clintonia

He was the son of Mary Wright Scott of 6 Ocean View, Whitley Bay and the late John Scott. He was Initiated into 3217 John Readhead Lodge on the 17th May 1915 there is no record of any further Advancement. He was lost at Sea 1st August 1915 age 34 and is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.

The S.S. Clintonia ship number 117975, built by William Doxford and Sons, Sunderland in 1907 (3830 grt) was a cargo ship owned by the Stag Line of North Shields.

At 03.58 hours on the 19th October 1940 the Clintonia [Master Thomas Hector Irvin] in convoy SC-7 was hit by one torpedo from the U-Boat U-99 [commanded by Fregattenkapitn Otto Kretschmer] about 200 miles west of St. Kilda. The vessel remained afloat and was sunk by gunfire from U-Boat U-123, commanded by Korvettenkapitn Karl-Heinz Moehle, at 05.04 hours.

One crew member was lost. The master, 33 crew members and one gunner were picked up by HMS Bluebell (K 80) (LtCdr R.E. Sherwood, RNR) and landed at Greenock.

Walter John Scott is remembered at Whitley Bay on W84.01, W84.02 and in W84.30, on page 22,  in our List of Ships’ Crews  and in the Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-18 (London).