Links & Notes

LINKS

The following , in bold type, are links to other pages on the internet regarding Ernest Scott.

I used these to glean the information given on this website, some of the information I used and some I missed out for brevity.

I've added new links to the Hornchurch Aerodrome Historical Trust, who have recently been in contact. (Mar 2021). Also in contact were the guys at the Museum at Hawkinge, near Folkstone. Somehow, the wreckage of Scott's plane ended up there.

Spinks 1
Spinks 2
Battle of Britain Monument
Tonbridge 1
Tonbridge 2

RAF Hornchurch (Facebook)
Hornchurch Aerodrome Historical Trust
Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge

222 Squadron  - a  short film showing a 'scramble'.  Ernest Scott  is shown in first few seconds of the film, (a still of which is shown right).

I also used sites like Ancestry to find more biographical information, e.g. his birth location.
Also, see my genealogical Webb site.
The Ernest Scott entry on the 'Find a Grave' web site can be found here.


NOTES

You may ask, what has Ernest Scott to do with me?

My wife is his 3rd cousin, once removed.  (See my Webb site).
We know Balby well, as our daughter and her family live nearby.
My Father was a contemporary of Ernest Scott in the RAF, having joined in the same year of 1935.
(Thankfully, Dad survived WW2).

It's strange that two separate branches of the Webb family, should both end up in Doncaster.
They share a common ancestor, William Webb, (1787-1859), a Waterman living in the historic town of Greenwich, Kent.

Ernest's Mother, Elizabeth Martha Webb, was christened in Leytonstone, East London on 29 Jun 1884, when she was 13 days old.
From then on, she seems to be missing from the public record, until 5 July 1902 when, aged 18, she married Robert Scott in Doncaster.

Elizabeth Martha's elder brother, William Henry Webb, had been living in Doncaster from at least 1890.
One day, I suppose we'll find out where she had been, and how and why she and her brother got to Doncaster.

We ourselves arrived in the Doncaster area from Gloucestershire in 2004.
Then, in the Summer of 2020, we discover that members of my wife's Webb family have been here for 120 years.
My wife must have quite a few distant cousins, of the Webb and Scott ilk, around Doncaster that we have yet to meet.
What a small world.

We are all indebted to the likes of Ernest Scott, who gave everything he had for our country.

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Postscript

Despite all the information to be found on the web, I thought a corrected, straightforward account of Ernest Webb's life, death, loss and recovery needed to be written.

Here it is.

Jack Bayes
August 2020
(Updates in March, June and August of 2021 and in 2022)