Education
McGill University.
McGill University.
During the Second Battle of Ypres on 25 April 1915 at Saint-Julien, Belgium, Captain Scrimger was in charge of an advanced dressing station in a farmhouse near Wieltje on the Saint Julien-Ypres Road. The advancing enemy were bombarding the area with an intense shelling. The German infantry were within sight.
Scrimger directed the removal of the wounded under the heavy fire.
Captain Scrimger and a badly wounded Captain Macdonald were the last men left at the station. Scrimger carried the wounded officer out of the farmhouse to the road.
The bombardment of shell forced Scrimger to stop and place Macdonald on the road. Scrimger then protected him with his own body.
During a lull in the gunfire Scrimger again carried Macdonald toward help.
When he was unable to carry him any further, he remained with the wounded man until help could be obtained. His medals are held at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. They were donated by his descendants in 2005.