Scott took part in the forced crossing of the Rhine, again by glider, when the Battalion suffered heavy losses. During a brief spell of home leave, he and a comrade visited Tidworth Military Hospital, where John Howard, who commanded a company of The 52nd in the Pegasus Bridge operation on D-Day, was recovering after a serious car accident.

The matron, who was a martinet of the old school, refused to allow the visitors to see him. But the two men, conditioned by weeks of street fighting, were undaunted. They went around to the back of the building, shinned up a drainpipe, climbed through a window and made their way to Howards bedside.

Scott fought in the Battle of the Ardennes and in the advance across Germany that culminated in meeting up with the Russians at the Baltic Sea. After a spell in Palestine, he was demobilised.

He moved to Penang, Malaysia, where he became marketing manager with British American Tobacco. He then spent two years in South Africa before returning to live in England at the end of the Fifties. He subsequently managed a marketing research company and lived in a converted railway carriage at Pagham Harbour, near Chichester. After settling at Bognor Regis, Scott ran a small business and enjoyed horse racing, travelling and the company of old friends.

He married, in 1947, Mildred (Millie) Swettenham, who predeceased him.