[2][3][4] In December 1899 Montagu Douglas Scott was appointed for active service as a staff officer and extra Aide-de-camp to Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the forces in South Africa during the early part of the Second Boer War.
[5] While stationed in South Africa, he was transferred to the regular army and appointed a second lieutenant in the newly created Irish Guards on 15 August 1900.
[7] Following the end of hostilities in June 1902 he returned to England, leaving Cape Town in the SS Norman, which arrived in Southampton in early September that year.
Lieutenant Colonel Montagu Douglas Scott fought in the First World War and commanded the 1/23rd London Regiment in France.
[1] Lieutenant Colonel Lord Herbert Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott died on 17 June 1944, at his home 'Shroner Wood', in Martyr Worthy, near Winchester, Hampshire.