STEWART, Arthur Eric
| Service Number: | 57 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 25 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carriage builder |
| Died: | Pleurisy - war related, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 8 September 1929, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-142. 59. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School , Cooks Hill St John's Honor Roll, Wickham Honey Suckle Point (H.S.P.) Loco Railway Workshops Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 57, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 57, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 57, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 14 Sep 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 57, 30th Infantry Battalion, Reverted from Driver at own request | |
| 17 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 57, 30th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit, sickness pleurisy |
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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, not forgotten.
92 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 9th September 1929, Private Arthur Eric Stewart, 30th Battalion (Reg No-57, Transport Section), carriage builder (Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops), of 140 Darby Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 76 Dawson Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of two (Wal and Don), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 35. ANGLICAN 2-142. 59.
Born at 17 Bull Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales on the 25th October 1893 to John and Louisa Stewart nee Donnelly; husband of Alma Ruth Stewart nee Hunt (married 1922, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 1968, 39 years a widow), Arthur enlisted July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123509618 - Arthur mentioned being a member of the 16th Infantry Regimental Band.
Admitted to hospital - 4.9.1917 (pleurisy with effusion, severe), Arthur was invalided home March 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 17th April 1918.
Mr. Stewart’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Cooks Hill St. John's Anglican Church Honor Roll, Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 25th May 1915, 10 names originally inscribed, 44 names now inscribed, 5 Fallen) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Arthur's headstone inscription proudly tells us of his service with the 1st A.I.F., and I have placed poppies in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Many thanks to Arthur’s Great Great nephew Hugh-Angus Bright for the photos of Mr. Stewart and the following family history.
Arthur was the 4th child of 10 to John Stewart and Margaret Louisa Donnelly, and grew up at 17 and 19 Bull Street and enlisted for WWI on the 18th of July 1915.
Arthur served at Gallipoli, Egypt and France with the 30th Battalion of the 8th Division, but was hospitalised a number of times for life threatening illnesses. One of these illnesses, pleurisy, would plague him for the rest of his life.
On the 7th of March 1918, Arthur returned to Newcastle to his life as a carriage painter and married Alma Ruth Hunt. They had two sons, Wal and Don between 1922 and 1929.
In 1929, Arthur succumbed to pleurisy and passed away at his residence, 76 Dawson Street, Cooks Hill, aged 35. He left a young widow and 2 infant sons behind, and was buried at Sandgate Cemetery.
Lest We Forget.
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