STEWART, Robert
| Service Number: | 5842 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 June 1916, 12 years Artillery Volunteer |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Dalmellington, East Ayrshire, Scotland, March 1874 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | ironworker (Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.) |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 10 August 1940, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-3SE. 32. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5842, Tunnelling Companies, 12 years Artillery Volunteer | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5842, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5842, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 29 Jul 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5842, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
83 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 11th August 1940, Sapper Robert Stewart, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-5842), ironworker (Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 66. PRESBYTERIAN-3SE. 32.
Born at Dalmellington, East Ayrshire, Scotland about March 1874 to Robert and Mary Stewart; husband of Jeanie S Stewart nee? (married?, died 1.12.1954, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 79, sleeping here), Robert enlisted on the 6th June 1916 with the Tunnelling Companies Reinforcements (Miners Battalion, age 42 years, 3 months, father of six) at Newcastle, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133885811 - report of presentation of a pocket wallet and wristlet watch to Robert and 4 Adamstown boys at Everson's Hotel, Adamstown.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 25th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 2.3.1918 (chronic bronchitis).
Robert returned home on the 7th June 1918, being discharged medically unfit (dilated action of the heart) on the 29th July 1918.
Report (see links) that Robert had returned home on the Saturday night of the 8th June 1918. Note - report also states that Robert has 3 Scottish brothers who also served.
Mr. Stewart’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial and the Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor.
Service record states Died after Discharge 10.8.1940.
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance 9.7.1941.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Robert’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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