William Scotter

General Sir William Norman Roy Scotter, KCB, OBE, MC (9 February 1922 – 5 February 1981) was a senior British Army officer who served as commander-in-chief, British Army of the Rhine from September 1978 until October 1980.

He was also the great-nephew of Sir Charles Scotter, chairman and managing director of the London and South Western Railway.

[1] It was for his actions in Burma on the night of 28 February 1945 at Meiktila as a company commander, where he was wounded, that he was awarded the Military Cross, serving as a temporary major with 1st battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles.

[2] Having returned to England, Scotter was transferred from the Indian Army to the 2nd Battalion Border Regiment in 1945, as a Regular officer.

A plaque to Scotter's memory is displayed in the Kings Own Border Regiment Chapel in Carlisle Cathedral.