Malvern College First World War Casualty

2nd Lieut John James Erskine Brown Stewart

Photo of John James Erskine Brown Stewart
House and time at Malvern: No 4, 1900 - 1903.

Regiment: Royal Scots.
Died: 12 June 1917 aged 32 in France. Died of wounds.
Battle: Battle of Messines. Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery XXII C 22

Son of Rev. Robert Stewart, D.D. (Minister of New Greyfriars Parish Church, Edinburgh) and Mrs. Margaret Stewart, 18 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, b. 1885.
Upper IV—Remove. School Prefect.
University College, Oxford, 1908; B.A. (Second Class Jurisprudence) 1911; Edinburgh University; LL.B.
Apprenticed to a firm of Writers to the Signet. In business.
Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Seaforth Highlanders; resigned (eye-sight); Private Public Schools' Batt; 2nd Lieutenant 7th Bn. attd. 12th Bn. Royal Scots.

'He died at the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital, Le Touquet, on 12th June 1917, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Arrras on 9th April.' (De Ruvigny).

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