STEWART, Graeme
| Service Number: | 1699 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 October 1915, Holdsworthy |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian Remount Unit |
| Born: | Lake Innes, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, 12 June 1876 |
| Home Town: | Taree, Greater Taree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mail Contractor |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 24 November 1922, aged 46 years |
| Cemetery: |
Taree Estate Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Row 41 |
| Memorials: | Taree War Memorial Clock Tower |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1699, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, Holdsworthy | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Corporal, 1699, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Corporal, 1699, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 29 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1699, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, HT Seang Bee, Suez for return to Australia - disembarking Sydney 31 May 1916 | |
| 17 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1699, 2nd Australian Remount Unit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Mr. Graeme Stewart, of Taree, second oldest son of the late Mr. W. W. Stewart, died in Jenner private hospital, Sydney, on Friday week, aged 40 years. He leaves a widow and a young family of three sons and one daughter.
The late Mr. Graeme Stewart and four of his brothers did honor to the family name in the Great War. Two of them, (Sergeant John McD. Stewart M.M., and Sergeant Norman Stewart), fell in action in one of the stunts in the Villers- Bretonneux section.
When the war in the Transvaal developed in 1899 the late Graeme Stewart was one of the first to enlist, and was one of the first contingent of 78 which sailed for Africa in the transport Aberdeen. In the Transvaal he was for some time 'galloper' to General French. Later he was invalided home, but consequently enlisted again, and served as troop-sergeant in the light horse to the end of the war. He was once wounded and had a horse shot under him. He was afterwards in the Durban post office for about 21 months. One of his brothers, Mr. Robert H. Stewart, served through the Boer War, and also took part in the more recent struggle in Europe, and was at the Peninsula.
When the war drums throbbed in 1914, the late Graeme Stewart heard the call and sailed for the war zone in Egypt in 1915. He served for 235 days in Egypt and Palestine, and it was in the arid land of Egypt that he became ill, an attack of enteric being the commencement of the trouble from which he never recovered. He returned in 1916 and from then lived on the Manning, practically to the time of his death.
The funeral took which place in the Taree Estate Cemetery was largely attended, and was a very impressive one. Rev. W. Tassie conducted the first part of the ceremony and Rev. W. P. Stewart, the committal portion of it. The body was carried from the Presbyterian Church to the hearse by six of the brothers of the deceased. A detachment of returned soldiers accorded their deceased comrade a military funeral, and the coffin, which was enshrouded by a Union Jack, was carried from the roadway to the grave by soldiers. On the coffin were the dead soldier's cap and tunic, and these were buried with him, and the 'Last Post' was sounded for the first time in the long established cemetery. On the coffin were beautiful wreaths, one of which was draped with the battalion colors of deceased.
Courtesy: Gavin Stewart
Reference: The Bathurst Times, 8 December 1922, p. 2. - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117580345
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