Private James Alexander STEWART (1264)
B Company 1/6th (Morayshire) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

Date of birth: 31st October 1893
Date of death: 15th June 1915

Died of wounds aged 21
Buried at Lilliers Communal Cemetery Plot II Row A Grave 4
He was born at Parkhead Knockando on the 31st of October 1893 son of James Alexander Stewart and Isabella Jane Stewart also of Parkhead.

He was educated at Knockando Public School after which he became a blacksmith.

He enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders at Archiestown on the 4th of August 1914.

He embarked with his battalion at Folkestone at 8.30pm on the 1st of May 1915 arriving at Boulogne in the early hours of the morning on the 2nd.

On the 15th of June 1915 the battalion were in support of a company of the 1/5th Seaforths as they attacked to the south of the La Bassee Canal.
The 1/6th Seaforths manned their parapet and poured rifle fire into the German front trench. British artillery bombarded the German trench all day but shortly before the attack went in the German artillery retaliated causing heavy casualties among the Scots.

The 1/5th Seaforth attack failed with the company losing half its men. The supporting 1/6th Battalion had 140 casualties of which 29 were killed.

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