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David Livock STEWART

Regimental number940
Place of birthNewstead, Victoria
SchoolNewstead and later Joyces Creek State Schools, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationFarmer
AddressCowangie, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation18
Height5' 10.75"
Weight147 lbs
Next of kinFather, David Stewart, Cowangie, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil (exempt area under Compulsory Military Training scheme)
Enlistment date3 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll14 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name31st Battalion, D Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/48/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 9 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollGunner
Unit from Nominal Roll13th Field Artillery Brigade
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularSeveral times recommended for distinction for bravery and devotion to duty.
FateKilled in Action 22 August 1917
Place of death or woundingYpres, Belgium
Age at death20.9
Age at death from cemetery records20
Place of burialVlamertinghe New Military Cemetery (Plot VII, Row F, Grave No. 5), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
18
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: David and Mary STEWART, Cowangie, Victoria. Native of Newstead, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrother: 718 Pte John Malcolm STEWART MM, 21st Bn, returned to Australia, 12 December 1918.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 9 November 1915; disembarked Suez, 7 December 1915.

Appointed Lance Corporal, 15 February 1916.

Transferred to 5th Division Artillery, Tel el Kebir, 15 March 1916, and taken on strength, 25th Howitzer Brigade, and posted to 114th Battery as Gunner.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 25 June 1916.

Transferred to 115th Battery, 7 June 1916.

Transferred to 13th Field Artillery Brigade, 4 April 1917, and posted to 113th Battery.

Killed in action, 22 August 1917.

Statement, Red Cross File No 2630308M, 2640 Gunner J. POWNEY, 112th Howitzer Battery (patient, No 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples), 17 December 1917: 'He was killed with 4 others by a shell about August 22nd at Cambridge Trench, Ypres. They were all asleep at the time (about 11 a.m.). I did not see the casualty happen but I saw their bodies afterwards. They were not knocked about but had been killed by concussion. I helped to bury them in a cemetery near Vancouver Dump. The Brigade Chaplain (Moore) (C. of E.) officiated at the burial.'

Second statement, 2146 Pte R.E. HENDERSON, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, 25 October 1918: 'Casualty was at battery position, Cambridge Trench, and was asleep in the dug-out. I had taken his breakfast to him at about 7.30 and I had gone back to my own dug-out which was next door. At about 10.30 the Germans started shelling us heavily. An H.E. shell exploded near their dug-out killing Casualty instantly ... The cause of death was concussion.'
Miscellaneous detailsSecond given name incorrectly recorded on Embarkation Roll as Levock.
SourcesNAA: B2455, STEWART David Livock
Red Cross File No 2630308M

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