George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff

Scott-Moncrieff was born in Bengal, British India, the younger son of Maj. Alexander Pringle Scott-Moncrieff, of the 44th Bengal Infantry, and of Elizabeth Hastie Coventry, younger daughter of the Rev. George Coventry, of Shanwell, Kinross-shire. His father was the second of seven sons born to Robert Scott Moncrieff (1793–1869); his younger brother was the distinguished engineer Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff (1836–1916).{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir George Scott-Moncrieff – An Eminent Military Engineer |work=The Times |date=7 June 1924 |page=15 }}

Scott-Moncrieff joined the Royal Engineers in March 1874{{London Gazette|issue=24074|page=1593|date=18 March 1874}} and served in Afghanistan from 1878–1880. He was an Instructor at the School of Military Engineering from 1893–1898. He was Commander of the Royal Engineers, China Expeditionary Force 1900–1901, taking part in the relief of Peking and the Waziristan expedition on the North West Frontier, India 1901–1902.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MONCRIEFF1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975.]

He was Assistant Director, Fortifications and Works, Army Headquarters 1909–1911, and Director, Fortifications and Works, War Office 1911–1918. He was promoted to the rank of major-general on 1 October 1912, following the retirement of Major-General Richard M. Ruck.{{London Gazette |issue=28649 |date=1 October 1912|page=7195}} He retired in 1918.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1901 for services in China,{{London Gazette |issue=27337 |date=23 July 1901|pages=4916–4917 |supp=y }} a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1907 Birthday Honours{{London Gazette |issue=28034 |date=25 June 1906|pages=4430–4436 |supp=y }} and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1915 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=12813 |date=4 June 1915|city=e|pages=770–770 }} He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1918 for valuable services rendered in connection with the War.{{London Gazette |issue=13225 |date=19 March 1918| city=e|pages=1048–1048}}

• {{cite book|title=The Royal Engineers Field-Service Pocket-Book|year=1894}}
• {{cite book|title=The Water Supply of Barracks and Cantonments|year=1896|publisher=Mackay |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100230523}}
• {{cite book|title=The Principles of Structural Design|publisher=W. & J. Mackay & Co. [for] the Royal Engineers Institute |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006574741}}; vol. 1 (1897); vol. 2 (1898)
• {{cite book|title=Recent Works in the N. W. Frontier Province, India|year=1905}}
• {{cite book|title=Eastern Missions From a Soldier's Standpoint|year=1907}}
• {{cite book|title=Works Economics|year=1910}}
• {{cite book|title=Field Entrenchments: Spadework for Riflemen, Hasty Fire Cover, Fire Trenches, Communications, Concealment, Obstruction, Shelters|year=1914}}
• {{cite journal|title=The Hutting Problem in the War |journal=The Royal Engineers Journal|year=1924|pages=361–380|url=https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf}}
• {{cite journal|title=Major-General Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncreiff KCB KCMG CIE MICE|journal=The Royal Engineers Journal|year=1924|pages=492–497|url=https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf}}
• {{cite book|title=Canals & Campaigns: An Engineer Officer in India, 1877-1885|year=1987|publisher=British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia}}

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