Only son of John B. and Catherine Scott, of Hamilton Terrace, Daisy Hill, Edmondsley, Durham.
Soldiers died in the Great War states that he was born and lived in Edmondsley, and that he enlisted at Cocken Hall, Fence Houses.
John Simpson Scott is remembered at Sacriston on S113.04 and S113.07
He is also remembered in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 169.
