LADY SCOTT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16679, 10 March 1922, Page 9

LADY SCOTT.

TO MARRY DISTINGUISHED NAVAL OFFICER. [From Orn Correspondent.] LONDON. January 23. The engagement announced to-day of Lady Scott, widow of the Antarctic explorer, must touch the hearts of her New Zealand friends with whom she spent the thrilling and tragic hours of waiting in New Zealand for the hero who did not return from the long long trail. Lady Scott, it will he recalled was given rank a year after her husband's death as the widow of a- K.C.B. tSho herself is an accomplished woman and a sculptor, two of whose works have been seen by many Now Zealand visitors to the Old Country, the raonu-l inent to Rolls, the aviator whose tragic death at a Bournemouth flying meeting was one of the big losses aviation sustained in the early days of flying. Another is the war memorial set up at Dover overlooking the Straits. Peter, the son of Lady Scott and her late husband, is now twelve years old. He lias been the most uncoddled boy in London. and he lias probably had more fresh air and worn less clothes than any other boy living within the radius. The man Lady Scott is to marry— Lieutenant-Commander E. Hilton Young, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty is one, of those who distinguished himself in the Great AVar. He was an officer of the Vindictive at Zeebrugge, and later a. member of the British mission to Serbia He is a D.S.O. having been awarded this decoration for his great initiative, gallantry and dash when in command of an armoured tram during tho operations in Archangel. Commander Young leads, now the more peaceful life of a Treasury official at Whitehall, and in spite of hard service and his slightly greyed hair, yet retains a boyish mannev-