In Memory of

JOHN STEWART

Private
S/11401
7th Bn., Gordon Highlanders
who died on
Friday, 22nd March 1918. Age 24.

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John Stewart

 

 

1914-18 War Medals

Son of Peter and Isabella Stewart of Haremyre, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire.

Peter Stewart d 3/10/1926 age 77. Isabella Milton d 23/12/1929. Interred Gartly CY.
John recorded on headstone.

John had two brothers and a sister. His brother Peter also served with The Gordon Highlanders in The Great War and afterwards farmed at Haremyre ( twice) and Braefolds in the Parish. John was born at Windseye, Auchindoir.

He was born at Auchindoir, enlisted at Aberdeen, killed in action, served France and Flanders

The letter S prefixing the service number indicates a wartime enlistment.

PRO; War & Victory Medals

The Life of a Regiment entry
21/3/1918, Start of The Battle of Arras
On the day of John's death 7GH, in 51 HD are in positions astride the Baupaume-Cambrai road near Morchies in the Arras-Cambrai sector of the front line.

On Sunday 3rd February 1915 7GH boarded a train at Ampthill Military Siding, Bedford bound for Folkstone via London. At 00.20 they de-trained at Folkstone Pier and boarded "Onward" which was moored alongside. " Onward" arrived at Boulogne before dawn. 7 GH moved to a camp at Ostrehove. They then travelled by train to Armentieres via Hazebrouck. Marched to billets at Contrainne?
8-9/5/1915 In trenches in Neuville St Vaast area, North of Arras.

Service Notes
1/7th Gordons ( Deeside Highland)

4/8/1914 at Banchory: Gordon Brigade, Highland Division. to Bedford in August 1914
On 3/5/1915 the Brigade landed at Boulogne as 153rd Brigade, 51st Highland Division
6/10/1918 ammalgamated with 1/6th Battalion .

Commemorative Information

Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:		 Bay 8 and 9

Location:

The Arras Memorial

 

The name of John Stewart

 The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station. The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, with the exception of casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister, 25 feet high and 380 feet long, built up on Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels fixed to the cloister walls.
Historical Information: The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, excluding casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister built upon Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse in front of which is the Arras Flying Services Memorial. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels which are fixed to the cloister walls.