ANDREW SCOTT, who was a founder member of the Fife branch of the British Limbless Ex- Servicemen’s Association, has died at the age of 91.

Mr Scott died peacefully at the Ancaster BLESMA Home in Crieff last week. He had been involved with the association for over 50 years and was its former Scottish chairman.

The war veteran, who hailed from Kirkcaldy, lost part if his right leg after landing on the Normandy beaches with the 1st Royal Dragoons in 1944.

He was in a reconnaissance scout car when a German shell killed his driver and left him with serious leg injuries.

Despite his injury, on his return to Dunfermline he went back to the city police force, which he had joined before the war.

Ten years after the war ended he helped start up BLESMA’s Fife branch, and in 1980 he was elected Scottish area chairman in recognition of his 25-year contribution to the organisation.

By the time he retired from the police in 1966, he was in charge of the divisional office at the former police station in Abbey Park Place.

The force presented him with a long service medal.

He went to work for the East Suffolk and Norfolk River Authority in Norwich but returned to Fife two years later to work at the Department of Employment’s Training Centre in Townhill.

He joined Dunfermline City Chambers as depute burgh officer in 1971 and later became council officer.

Mr Scott was awarded the MBE in the 1992 birthday honours for his work as vice-chairman of the East of Scotland War Pensions Committee.