Adam Scoon volunteered from The 7th Camerons to airborne forces. He was parachute jump trained at RAF Ringway on course 26. This course ran between 6 - 12 September 1942. 

He became a member of The 5th (Scottish) Parachute Bn, B Coy, 9 Pln. 

18 December 1944 he sustained a gunshot wound and lost a finger. He was sadly killed in an aircrash evacuating to Italy 21 December 1944. 

He is buried at Bari War Cemetery 12.E.5