STEWART, Wallace Highton
| Service Number: | 78 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Allora, Queensland, Australia, 4 May 1879 |
| Home Town: | Allora, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer, Licensed Victualler |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 23 October 1934, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland Sect. Presbyt 3 Block 9 Allotment 26 |
| Memorials: | Allora Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 78, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 78, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 448 notes 1st QMI embarked 1 Nov 1899 aboard Cornwall arriving Cape Town 13 Dec 1899. | |
| 25 Aug 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 78, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier, notes invalided due to enteric fever returned to Australia aboard Persic arriving Brisbane 18 Aug 1900, discharged 25 Aug 1900. |
Help us honour Wallace Highton Stewart's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Mr. Stewart, who was born at Allora 55 years ago, had been licensee of the Globe Hotel, Toowoomba, for some years. He was the son of pioneer residents of the Allora district. He enlisted with the Allora contingent, and served throughout the Boer War. He married Miss Henrietta Williams, of Killarney, and went to Toowoomba some years ago. He first went into the Union Hotel in Ruthven Street, afterwards the Freemason's Hotel, then the Empire Hotel in Toowoomba, and finally the Globe Hotel. He is survived by his widow, three sisters, and four brothers.
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Note- his older brother Charles Rupert Stewart also served with him in the same contingent in the Boer War. Both their names are inscribed as W. H. Stewart and C. R. Stewart on the tablet for Allora men who fought in the South African Boer War attached to the Allora Boer War Memorial.
When Wallace Highton Stewart enlisted in 1899 in the 1st QMI and his details were published in The Brisbane Courier, 18 Nov 1899, he was recorded as Private W. H. Stewart, single, Allora. He was invalided from service returning to Brisbane where he was discharged on 25 Aug 1900.
Wallace Highton Stewart was born on 4 May 1879 at Allora, a son to James Stewart and Margaret Stewart (nee Emery). He married Margaretta Williams on 2 Feb 1910 in Queensland.
Not long after returning from the war he returned to Allora to take over the family farm following his father's passing. A few years later he handed over control of the farm to a younger brother and ventured to Toowoomba and became the licensee of the Union Hotel, near the Town Hall, the start of a long career in the hotel business in Toowoomba.
He later moved to become licensee of the Freemasons' Hotel and then the Tattersall's Hotel. After finishing at the Tattersall's Hotel he decided to purchase the lease of the Empire Hotel and from there took over the Globe Hotel which he held up until his passing near 10 years later.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 452; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 107).
Click images to start slideshow.