STEWART, Philip Graham Annandale
| Service Number: | 188 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 11 June 1881 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Manager, Club Executive |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 May 1966, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 188, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 188, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 4 Jan 1902: | Imprisoned Battle of Onverwacht, Newspaper article, The Week (Brisbane) 7 Mar 1902, p. 9 notes taken prisoner on 4 Jan 1902 at Onverwacht and later released. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 188, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Philip Graham Annandale Stewart enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published (under Philip Stewart) with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as Mrs. A. Stewart, East Melbourne. The Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB Bk 2, p. 38, held by the Qld State Archives have him entered as Philip Stewart and noted that he was allowed to disembark the ship on return to Australia in Melbourne if in "good health" where it appears his mother was residing.
He was born on 11 Jun 1881 (recorded by BDM Qld as Graham Philip Annandale Stewart) in Queensland, a son to Alexander Gore Stewart and Annie Rebecca Stewart (nee Annandale). It appears he identified himself as Philip or Phil throughout his life.
In an article, Short Sportfolios by "The Sportographer", appearing in both The Week (Brisbane) and The Telegraph (Brisbane) newspapers, 3 Dec 1932, a biography of his early professional life is recorded under the name Phil Stewart. At the time he had just completed 2 years as the Secretary of the Tattersall's Club in Brisbane.
He was educated at Breakfast Creek School and Birsbane Grammar School before commencing work with Webster & Co. After serving in the South African War he returned to his native Brisbane before joining the Dunlop Rubber Co. in Melbourne for 2 years, then Adelaide 2 years and Western Australia 10 years returning to Brisbane in 1919. He was later working in Sydney when he was appointed as Secretary of Tattersall's Club Qld in Nov 1931.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 497; Qld State Archives- Boer War Servce Paybooks 5th QIB Bk 2, p. 38; Short Sportfolios by "The Sportographer"- The Telegraph, 3 Dec 1932, p. 3).
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