Stewart John Robert Pte 4459426
Personnel Entry
Name Stewart John Robert
Army number 4459426
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Swards.
Date of birth 18/10/1920 at Morpeth.
Age (At the time of his death) 70. Probate granted 11/1/1991.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F in Northern France?. Discharged under TA King's Regulations 1935 Para 383 (xvi) 27/8/40.
Company/Battery A Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not known.
Task or role Probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not known.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Date of death 4/12/1990.
Home address Father - John Robert Stewart, mother Hannah (nee Johnson). At the time of the 1939 General Register he was working as a rope lad, underground.
Subsequently worked as a miner. Lived at 2, Renwick St. Walker, Newcastle. Married Olive Tewart 1951.
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