STEWART, James Dodds
| Service Number: | 16758 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Wigtownshire, Scotland , 29 April 1890 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hospital Assistant |
| Died: | Medina, Kwinana, Western Australia, 21 March 1970, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Claremont Hospital for the Insane Honour Roll, North Perth Presbyterian Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 7 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 16758, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 Dec 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 16758, 4th Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Dec 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 16758, 4th Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Orsova, Fremantle | |
| 17 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 16758, 1st Divisional Signal Company, embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Plassy |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper James Dodds Stewart (Service No:16758) enlisted in the AIF on 7 May 1916 as a Private attached to 17/28 Infantry Battalion. Sapper Stewart was attached to 4th Divisional Signal Coy when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Plymouth on 12 December 1916 on board HMAT A67 Orsova. Sapper Stewart served in France and was attached to 1st Divisional Signal Unit on 17 March 1919 when he embarked from England for Fremantle on board HT Plassy and was Discharged on 30 June 1919. He served with the ACMF in WWII (Staff Sergeant; Service No:Q191515). Sibling Robert (Service No:4235) was KiA in WWI and John (Service Nos:W59677/1018) served in WWII.
James was born in Wigtownshire, Scotland in 1890, second of six children of James Stewart (b1860 in Kircudbright, Scotland) and Elizabeth Dodds (b1862 in Wigtownshire, Scotland). James Snr (Corporal in the Royal Scots Fusiliers) and Elizabeth (a Domestic Servant) married in 1883 in Renfrewshire, Scotland. They lived in Wigtownshire and Ayrshire where James Snr worked as a Labourer, Plate Layer and Scavenger before immigrating to Australia in the early 1900s. James Snr died in 1911.
James was working as a Hospital Assistant in Perth in 1913 when he married Margaret Tolmie (b1893 in Forfarshire, Scotland). Following James' Discharge in 1919, he and Margaret settled in Busselton as part of the Group Settlement Scheme (Group 9 Settlement) before returning to Perth in the late 1920s. James worked as a Foreman and a Carpenter and, following Margaret's death in 1938, James remarried in 1939 - to Olive May Ross (b1907 in Midland Junction, Guildford, WA) - Olive was working as a Nurse at Perth Hospital. In 1940 James and Olive had settled in Brisbane, QLD where James worked as a Physical Culture Instructor and Masseur. Following his Discharge from the ACMF, they returned to WA where James was a Storkeeper at Tardun and in 1950 was allocated a Dairy Farm under the War Service Land Settlement Scheme. James and Olive lived at 'Naranio' in Pinjarra (where James was a Dairy Farmer) before moving to Medina in Kwinana in the late 1950s. James worked as a Gardener until his death in 1970.
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