Name
Algernon Bingham Anstruther Stewart (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1916
46
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Seaforth Highlanders
1st/4th Bn. (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOUEZ MILITARY CEMETERY, DUISANS
I. C. 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Gatehouse of Fleet War Memorial
Pre War
Born on 6 Dec 1869 at sea in the Persian Gulf son of Colonel Charles Edward and Anne Nairn (Anstruther) Stewart of Ornochkenoch, Kirkcudbright. Educated at Haileybury College 1884-86 and the Royal Military College Sandhurst. Gazetted in Oct 1890 to the 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders and joined the Regiment in India. Served on the Chitral Relief Force 1895 and, after promotion to Captain in 1899, in South Africa 1899-1902 Distinguished Service Order (1901). Appointed Major in 1907 and returned to India. He married Edith Evelyn Vivian on 8 Nov 1911 and had two children.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the war, he entered France on 12 Oct 1914 and was injured by an exploding shell at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in Mar 1915 and repatriated to England. He returned to France as Lt Col to command 1st/ 4th Bn. in Mar 1916 and was killed in action by a trench mortar while making an inspection of the lines.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
