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William Scotter
General Sir William Norman Roy Scotter, KCB, OBE, MC (9 February 1922 – 5 February 1981) was Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, from September 1978 until October 1980.
==Early years==
William (Bill) Scotter was born in Birkenhead, Wirral on 9 February 1922, the son of Claude Norman Scotter (born Ulverston, Cumbria in 1889, died 1978 in Hampshire) and Hilda Marie Scotter (née Turner)(1892–1948). He had two brothers and one sister. William was the grandson of Canon William Henry Scotter, one time Vicar at Ulverston and his wife Emma Gordon Dill. William was also the great nephew of Sir Charles Scotter, Baron Walford, Chairman and Managing Director of the London and South Western Railway.
He was educated at St. Bees School, Cumberland. In June 1941 he enlisted in the British Army and served in ranks of the Scots Guards.〔(Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )〕 By 1942 he had attained the rank of Lance Corporal. After attending the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, India, he was emergency commissioned into 7th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army on 26 November 1942.〔 He served with the 7th Gurkha Rifles in India from 1943 until 1944, first as temporary Captain, then as lieutenant. Then later in Burma from 1944 until 1945.〔 It was for his actions in Burma on the night of the 28 February 1945 at Meiktila as a company commander, where he was wounded, that he was awarded the MC serving as a temporary Major with 1st battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles.〔London Gazette 2 August 1945〕
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