Robert (Brock) Stewart

Robert (Brock) Stewart.

Personal Details:

The 1881 census records him being born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1879.

Second son of Robert and Mary Stewart of Glasgow.

Robert emigrated to Australia some time prior to the Great War, settled down and married Amy J Stead, in 1915 in Petersham, Western Australia, with whom he had one child.

When war was declared, he returned to the UK and enlisted with the Seaforth Highlanders.

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Military Details:

Regiment:           2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.

Rank:                 Private.

Serial Number:   8069.

He was wounded in Belgium (Ypres) on 26th April 1915, repatriated to the UK to the Bollings VAD Hospital in Malpas, where he died of his wounds on 18 May 1915.

The military records show him dying in the 2nd Western General Hospital in Winchester.

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Record of Death:

Died of his wounds in The Bolling at Malpas on 18th May 1915. Aged 36

Buried in Malpas Cemetery, West Plot 323 on 19 May 1915.

Robert was buried on 19th May 1915.

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Medals and Awards:

Robert was awarded the Campaign Medals (1915 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal).

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Further information:

A newspaper record at the time suggests that his funeral was the first to be staged in Malpas with full military honours.

We speculate that having died in Malpas with his parents and siblings in Glasgow and widow and child in Australia, an expedient (and practical) decision was taken to bury him in Malpas cemetery.

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Note*

Robert is not currently recorded on the Malpas War Memorial or any other UK civic memorial.

Although he died in Malpas, it is currently not known why he was not included on the War Memorial when it was erected in 1920.

Remembered with Honour in Malpas CemeteryRobert Brock Stewart's GraveExtract of a newspaper report of Robert's Funeral.1915 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal.