Cause and Place of Death: Killed in Action

BX September 19, 1918

Leaving a bride of two days, Private Stanley Stuart proceeded overseas with the 215th Battalion from Brantford and now word has come that the young wife is a widow, the brave soldier being killed in action in the recent big offensive, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, his parents, have given no less than four sons to the great cause. Private Albert has been a prisoner of war in Germany for two and a half years; William is lying in an English hospital at Stourbridge with a badly fractured arm and leg. Something over a year ago a third son, Jack, came back to Canada and he is in the Toronto convalescent hospital with his face disfigured. The bereaved wife, formerly Gladys Farr, resides with her parents in West Brantford. One sister, Beatrice, and his brother Chester, are at home and in the city is his brother, Postie Alfred Stuart, Mrs. William Smith and Mrs. George Ward, his sisters. Before going overseas with the 215th, Private Stuart worked for the Adams grocery.

BX September 21, 1918

Mrs. Stanley Stuart, 18 Richardson Street, received official news yesterday that her husband, Pte. Stanley Stuart was killed in action September 2. He went overseas with the 215th 18 months ago, has been in France six months. He leaves a wife and small baby boy to mourn his loss.

BX November 7, 1918

Note of Sympathy

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stuart, 181 Sheridan Street, have received a letter of sympathy from Gen. Mewburn, minister of militia, extending sincere sympathy to them in the loss of their son, Pte. Stanley Stuart, “who in the sacrificing of his life at the front in action with the enemy has rendered the highest services as a worthy citizen.”  Three other sons are in hospital, and one, Pte. Albert Stuart is a prisoner of war.