Captain Cuthbert Bannatyne STEWART
1/1st Lanarkshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Glasgow)

Date of birth: 30th March 1891
Date of death: 1st October 1967

Survived aged 76
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Cuthbert Bannatyne Stewart was born at Annet House, Skelmorlie, Largs in Ayrshire on the 30th of March 1891 the eldest son of Thomas Cuthbert Stewart, steel tube manufacturer, and Jessie Marie (nee Dunn) Stewart of Blackhouse, Skelmorlie and later of 19, Park Circus in Glasgow.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1904 where he was a member of the Choir and of the Cricket XI in 1904 and of the Football XI in 1904. The school magazine wrote the following on his 1904 cricket season: - "A deserving sportsman, putting all he knows into his play."

They wrote of his 1904 football season: - "(Inside left) - Has unlimited dash, but very little idea of eluding the opposition; is an uncertain shot."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - "....goes to Wellington; he has been an energetic all round sportsman, in both the elevens."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Brougham’s House from January 1905 to December 1907. He was a member of the Shooting VIII in 1907, being top scorer in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley that year and was a member of the Cadet Corps.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry on the 12th of December 1911 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 29th of August 1914. He was promoted to Captain on the 12th of March 1915 and served in France from the 13th of May 1915; he also served in Egypt and Palestine. He was invalided home and then posted to Aldershot.

He was married to Joan (nee Coulthurst) in 1927 and lived at 26a South Audley Street, London W1.

After the war he joined the London Stock Exchange in 1920 where he worked as a stockbroker. He was a member of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers and was appointed as a Lieutenant on the General List on the 6th of May 1940. He served in South Africa from 1940 to 1945. He was member of the Cavalry and Caledonian Clubs and lived at 92 Berkeley Court, Marylebone in London.

His brother, Lieutenant Ronald James Stewart MC 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, died of wounds on the 28th of January 1916.
Went on to Wellington College

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