During the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge on the 4th October 1917, he was awarded The Distinguished Conduct Medal. The citation reads:
�During the attack on Broodseinde Ridge eat of Ypres an 4th Oct., 1917, Sgt. SCORER did splendid work both before and after the advance. He assisted the intelligence office in guiding the Battalion on to the tapes. When the Battalion advanced, Sgt. SCORER maintained direction on the flank in a most efficient manner and when held up by machine gun fire he crept forward and alone rushed the gunners, bayoneted 8 and put the gun out of action. He was wounded in this fight but continued his task of maintaining direction on his flank until the objective was reached when he was again very badly wounded while assisting to supervise consolidation. �
In Ron Austin�s book �Cobbers in Khaki� the following passage mentions him:
�When Chaplain Booth arrived at the RAP to assist the RMO the first man he saw was the Orderly Room Sergeant, �poor old Bill Scorer.� Lying next to Scorer was Lieutenant Goodwin, who was described by Booth as �One of the most courageous officers of the 8th Battalion. Bill Scorer seemed cheerful but we hold very little hope for him, while poor old Goodwin has no chance. We looked him over, he was quite unconscious.� (Goodwin died that day, Scorer died two weeks later).�
Bill Scorer died of wounds on the 24th October 1917 and is buried in Estaples Military Cemetery aged 24.
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