There are seven soldiers listed with the name Private James SCOTT and of the Australian Infantryon the CWGC register and it is only possible to guess which one is recorded at Stoneham and only one has direct English connections listed on the CWGC website (but they are in Cumberland). Let us know if you have any more on any of these:

1. Private James SCOTT (Service No: 4589) Was 28 when he died 09/04/1917

2nd Battalion he was the son of William and Annie Scott, of Brunker St., Kurri Kurri, New South Wales.

He is buried at the cemetery in Hermies - the village had been seized on the morning of the 9th April, 1917, by a surprise attack of the 2nd and 3rd Australian Infantry Battalions. The cemetery was made in April-December, 1917, by fighting units and Field Ambulances. There are now over 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site

2.Private James SCOTT (Service No: 5491) 6th Battalion and died 17/09/1917 During the Third Battle of Ypres, the principal British offensive in Flanders in 1917 (known unofficially as the Passchendaele Offensive) lasting from 31 July 1917 - 10 November 1917. He is buried at LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY.

The village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish casualty clearing stations. in June 1915,the cemetery began to be used by casualty clearing stations of the Commonwealth forces. The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 883 war graves of other nationalities,

3. Private James SCOTT (Service No: 3482) died on 14/03/1920 and is buried in Australia at SPRINGVALE NECROPOLIS, MELBOURNE. His unit, the 60th Battalion was the one in 15 Brigade ordered to disband to reinforce the other three and the men mutinied. After being addressed by Brigadier H.E. Elliot they complied with the order and the battalion disbanded on 27 September 1918. Their actions are indicative of the high regard in which Elliot was held, and of the high standard of discipline within the 60th; it was the only Australian battalion ordered to disband in September 1918 that did so.

4. Private James SCOTT, (Service No: 2404) was 34 when he died 01/09/1918. The son of John and Hannah Scott, of Flimby, Cumberland, England; he is also described as the husband of the late Frances Ann Scott, of Ewart St., Midland Junction, Western Australia.

"B" Company of the 44th Battalion, was raised at Claremont, Western Australia in February 1916. The 44th spent the bleak winter of 1916-17 alternating between service in the front line in France, and training and labouring in the rear areas. The 44th took part in the preparatory battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, and was part of the first wave when the offensive itself was launched on 8 August. Its involvement continued during the long advance that followed throughout August and into September.

The great majority of dead from Rouen Hospitals were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920.


5. Private James Alfred SCOTT (Service No: 2701) died on 26/09/1917 having served with

16th Battalion. He is recorded among the more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known and remembered at The Menin Gate in Ypres.

6. Private James Henry SCOTT, (Service No: 797 ) was just 19 when he died on 25/04/1915 - the first day of Gallipoli landings. His unit the 9th battalion was raised within weeks of the declaration of war in August 1914 and embarked just two months later. After preliminary training, the battalion sailed to Egypt, arriving in early December. The 3rd Brigade was the covering force for the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915, and so was the first ashore at around 4.30 am. The battalion was heavily involved in establishing and defending the front line of the ANZAC beachhead.

son of William Henry Scott, of Cloncurry, Queensland, and the late Catherine Elizabeth Scott -remembered at the LONE PINE MEMORIAL on the site of the fiercest fighting overlooks the whole front line of May 1915. It commemorates more than 4,900 Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in the Anzac area whose graves are not known.

7. Private James Wilfred Stanley SCOTT, (Service No: 5882) was 27 when he died 20/04/1917

Born at Victoria, Australia son of James Timothy and Julia Georgina Scott and husband of Maud Scott, of "Sydenham Ville" 250, Sydenham Rd., Marrickville, New South Wales..

He served with 18th Battalion and is recorded on VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL the Australian national memorial