{"id":3924,"date":"2023-07-17T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:48:51","slug":"stewart-j-a-l-lt-1st-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/stewart-j-a-l-lt-1st-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart J A L Lt 1st Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stewart J A L Lt 1st Rifle Brigade<\/p><\/div>\n

STEWART, JAMES ALEXANDER LOGAN, of Alltyrodyn, Lieut., 1st Battn The Rifle Brigade, elder s. of the late Lieut. James Logan Stewart, 7th Hussars (died v.p. 29 June, 1898), by his wife, the Hon. Eveline Mary (Alltyrodyn, Llandyssul, co. Cardigan), sister of Roland John, 13th Baron Dormer, and dau. of the Hon. Sir James Charlemagne Dormer, K.C.B., and grandson of the late James Stewart, of Alltyrodyn, J.P., D.L.; b. Bombay, India, 7 March, 1893; educ. Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge; suc. his grandfather, 23 April, 1908; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve Battn. of the Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1913; and promoted Lieut., 1st Battn., 30 Nov. 1914; went to France and joined his regt. at Ploegsteert Wood in Dec. following, and was killed in action at Shell Trap Farm, near Ypres, 13 May, 1915. On this occasion the position he was in command of was heavily shelled and temporarily captured, by the Germans, and on the Rifle Brigade. subsequently retaking the position, no trace could be found of his body or of those of his men; unm. In 1911, he played for Winchester against Eton; was a good all-round sportsman, being a first-rate shot, fisherman and cricketer. His brother, 2nd Lieut. Douglas Stewart, is now (1916) on active service with the Royal Hussars.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STEWART, JAMES ALEXANDER LOGAN, of Alltyrodyn, Lieut., 1st Battn The Rifle Brigade, elder s. of the late Lieut. James Logan Stewart, 7th Hussars (died v.p. 29 June, 1898), by his wife, the Hon. Eveline Mary (Alltyrodyn, Llandyssul, co. Cardigan), sister of Roland John, 13th Baron Dormer, and dau. of the Hon. Sir James Charlemagne Dormer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rifle-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}