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Private Alastair Keith McKellar Stewart (Service No:S2731) was a student at the University of Adelaide when he enlisted in the ACMF on 17 January 1941 and served with 10th and 48th Infantry Battalions VDC. Private Stewart discharged for occupational reasons on 11 February 1942. Siblings John and Neil also served in WWII.

Born in 1920 in Melbourne Victoria, Alastair was the third of four children of John (Jack) McKellar Stewart (b1878 at Ballangeich in Victoria) and Margaret Grace Stuart Bothroyd (b1882 in Melbourne, Victoria). Jack (a Teacher) and Margaret (an Arts Student at Trinity College at the University of Melbourne) married in 1909 in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1911 Jack and Margaret were in Scotand when Jack was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and by 1912 the couple had returned to Melbourne where Jack was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Margaret wrote for The Argus (in 1906 she was awarded the Bowen Essay Prize) and was active in The League of Women Voters. Jack was a Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and from 1923 to 1950 held the Sir Walter Hughes Chair of Philosophy at Adelaide University, where he was Vice Chancellor from 1945 to 1948.

Alastair was a student at the Adelaide University  in 1941 and in 1942 enlisted in the RAAF (Service No: 63114). In 1943 in Sydney NSW Alastair married Kathleen Leslie (b1916 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Kathleen was a Captain (Service No:SFX24672) in the Australian Army Nursing Service. Alastair and Kathleen lived in Brisbane, QLD and Sydney and Port Stephens NSW where Alastair was a Medical Practitioner. Alastair died in 1986 and Kathleen in 1991.