For  one hundred  and nine years the people of old lower Sandfields have made thier way up to Aberavon town passing St.Joseph`s church,and the adjacent St.Mary`s Cemetary.
Standing prominent in the front row there, they could not miss seeing the White Portland  War Gravestone of J.Scott and his two sons John and George.

Our story starts in the spring of 1886 at the small village of Bitton, near  Keynsham in  Gloucestershire, to the north of Bristol.  For it was here that the J.Scott on the gravestone mentioned above was born       
John`s father George Scott,was by trade a house painter,with two daughters Anne Maria and Elizabeth,also another son Edward George.
When John left school at the age of 14 years,he found a job as a shoemaker,this trade served him well for the rest of his days.
In 1885 at the age of twenty he married Mary Anne Lovell of the same village,and set up their new family home at nearby St Barnabas parish,Warmley.And it was here that thier first two children John and Mary were born.
A few years later in about 1900, John decided to follow his wife`s Lovell family to Llandilo in west Wales,where he opened a shoe shop at New Road in the town.His family had increased with another son George E. and a daughter Dorethy.However,we find that in 1910,John`s shoe shop was losing money and had to be closed,John put this down to family illness,and bad debts.
John continued to work as a shoemaker from his family home at 4 Bank Buildings Llandilo,with his son George Edward Scott aged18 as an assitant.His other children by this time had married and left the family home,but to compliment the family income,he and his wife had two lodgers at the home.

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Wales and World War One by Robin Barlow.
page 208-

The Scott family of Aberavon was hit by tradgedy unimagined in 1914; Private John Scott,1/4th Battalion Welsh regiment,apparently committed suicide by drowning in Port Talbot docks on 3 September 1915.He was aged fifty-one and working as a cook at Vivian Camp in Port Talbot.In the previous month both of his sons had been killed:Sergeant John Scott, of the same Battalion as his father, was killed in action at Gallipoli on 14 August 1915,while his brother had died of wounds at sea three days earlier.Private John Scott was buried with full military honours and at the inquest into his death the coroner sympathetically recorded a open verdict.This would have given his wife some small degree of solace,having lost a husband and two sons within the space of three weeks.

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Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision

In Memory of 
Serjeant
John Scott
3055,1st/4th Bn. Welsh Regiment
who died on 11 August 1915 Aged 29.
Son of Mrs. M.A.Scott,of 37,Victoria St.Llandovery,and the late John Scott;husband of Edith Scott,of 59,Gorsddu Rd. Penygroes,Llanelly.
Remembered with Honour
Helles Memorial.

Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision

In Memory of 
Private
George Scott
3016, 1st/4th Bn. Welsh Regiment
who died on 14 August 1915
Remembered with Honour
Helles Memorial.

Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commision
In Memory of 
Private
John Scott
20102, 4th Bn; Welsh Regiment
who died on 3 September 1915 age 50
Son of George and Elizabeth Scott,of Kingswood Bristol; husband of Mary Ann Scott,
of 37 Victoria St.Llandovery.
Remembered with Honour
Aberavon [ St.Mary]  Church Cemetery.

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