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John Stuart

John Stuart
Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
11097
Unit at enlistment: 
4th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot - Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
York
Birth city: 
Toronto, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
17 Arthur Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
17 Arthur Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Coremaker
Employer: 
Cockshutt Plow Co.
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
28
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Letters and documents

BX October 2, 1916 

Private John Stuart Reported Wounded

“Admitted to No. 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux on Sept. 21, suffering from a gunshot wound in the leg,” was the word received yesterday by Mrs. Thomas Stuart in regard to her son, Private John Stuart. Pte. Stuart enlisted early in the war, going overseas with the First Contingent. He has been through all the fighting with the first Canadian Division and this is the second time he has been wounded. Four of Pte. Stuart’s brothers have donned the khaki and one, Pte. Albert Victor Stuart is a prisoner of war in Germany. He was wounded in the head in June last and taken prisoner. He has lately been moved from Dülmen, Westphalia, to a new camp at Minden. His wound is healing up nicely. Another son, William Stuart is also in the trenches.

Few families have made a greater sacrifice than this family. Mrs. Stuart having freely given five sons to take a share in the great world struggle. Three sons have been in the trenches, John wounded twice; Albert now a prisoner of war, and William still doing his bit in the trenches, and there are two more sons in the 215th Battalion preparing to take their places in the trenches. Mrs. Stuart was living at 17 Arthur Street when war broke out, but is now living at 142 Alfred Street.

BX February 24, 1945

John Stuart

John (Cockney) Stuart, City, veteran of the First Great War, died in Westminster Hospital, London, Friday evening following a lengthy illness.  He was very well known among war veterans of this City.  One of the first fifty men from Brantford to enlist for service in the war of 1914-18, he was one of the originals of the 4th (Mad Fourth) Battalion, and was severely wounded in France.  Since that time he has spent nearly all his time in hospitals, principally at Christie Street, Toronto, and Wesminster, London.  Before the war he was a coremaker at the Cockshutt Plow Company here.  Surviving are five brothers, Alfred, William, Thomas and Chester, Brantford, Albert, Detroit, and two sisters, Mrs. Stanley Cramer and Mrs. Joseph Ward, also of Detroit.  The deceased is at the Beckett Funeral Home, where service will take place Monday afternoon.  Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery, with members of the Brantford Legion according military honors to a war veteran, who served his King and Country well.

BX February 27, 1945

John Victor Stuart

The funeral of John Victor Stuart was conducted Monday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.  Rev. John Kelman, Padre of the Brantford Branch of the Canadian Legion, officiated.  The Last Post and Reveille were sounded at the grave by Bugler F.C. Norrham.  The Legion party was in charge of Comrade E.R. Edwards. The pallbearers, all Legionnaires, were G. Gaydon, A. Laing, H. Twidale, B. Leishman, R. Farrow and W. Hammond.

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