Private JOHN STEWART
Last address in Lewis: 46 Benside,
Son of John and Barbara Stewart, of 46, New Market, Laxdale, Stornoway, Lewis.
Service unit: 1st Gordon Highlanders
Service number: 3/5990
Enlisted at Stornoway
Date of death: 27 December 1915 at the age of 19
Killed in action in France
Interred: La Clytte Military Cemetery, grave I. C. 20
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial
John shows on the 1901 census as the 5-year old son of John (50) and Barbara (38), with his siblings Alex D (8) and Katie (4). He stays at 46 Long Road, with his grandfather Alexander (80).
His brother Alex Don, who also served in the Gordons, was a prisoner-of-war in Germany for more than four years.
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