Lieutenant and Quartermaster Francis William Jarratt Scammell
Francis William Scammell was born at Bognor, near Chichester, Sussex. On 2 March 1894 he enlisted with the Corps of Lancers at Canterbury (Service No.5490). He was aged 19 and worked as an engine cleaner at the time. He served in the East Indies from 1895 to 1900, South Africa through 1900, Egypt from 1910 to 1912, and India from 1912 to 1913.
On 7 January 1913 he was posted as Squadron Sergeant Major to the North Irish Horse. He served at Antrim throughout the war. On 2 May 1917 he was promoted to temporary Sergeant Major (Service No.71972).
He was attached to the Army Service Corps at Aldershot as temporary Regimental Sergeant Major on 24 September 1918, and on 27 October he was appointed temporary Lieutenant and Quartermaster, on the General List.
Scammell arrived in France with the 5th Royal Irish Regiment on 8 November 1918, three days before the war ended.
Image 1 from the Belfast Evening Telegraph kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice). Image 2 of Scammell as a D Squadron North Irish Horse Sergeant in 1914, courtesy of the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (Cat. No. D1482/9).