Duncan John Stewart

In school Cadet Corps. On leaving school he joined No 3 Company of 5th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) with whom he served for 4 years but at the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders on the 7th September as private S/12204.  By February 1915 he had progressed through the non-commissioned ranks and reached Sergeant.  He served in France from 10th May 1915 and was wounded in the left forearm and hip (or thigh) on the 25th September during the Battle of Loos.   He was invalided home at the beginning of October and remained in Britain until he returned to France on 16th August 1916. During this period at home he received a commission in the 6th Battalion Cameronians as Second Lieutenant on 16th August 1916.  However, by the time he received his commission this battalion which had suffered heavily during the early part of the Battle of the Somme had been merged with the 5th Battalion Cameronians to form a composite 5/6th Battalion. As a result it seems that when Stewart returned to the front he was actually attached to the 2nd Battalion of the regiment.