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Personal data

  • Ballarat
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Ballarat, Victoria
  • Only son of John James and Mary Elizabeth Stewart (nee Price), of 129, Sturt St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Attended the Cathedral Sunday School and was in Miss Lindon Parkyn’s Bible Class
  • Railway employee
  • Buried by Rev. A.J.Morrison

Military service

  • 7 July 1915, Ballarat
  • 4311
  • Lance Corporal
  • 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 3rd Light Railway Operating Coy. Australian Engineers
  • Enlisted with 13/14th Battalion; embarkation Melbourne 29 December 1915; to France June 1916; transferred to Anzac Light Railways January 1917; detached to Assistant Director Light Railways 4th Army Coxyde July 1917

Death

  • Pacific Ammunition Dump/Rest Camp just outside Poperinge; shell fell on his hut; died on his way to CCS
  • Killed in action
  • 25
  • XXVI - GG - 5A

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