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Alexander Kenneth Stewart | ||||||||||||||
| Ian MacAlister Stewart [CFT #11720] Born: 1895 Died: 1987 |
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| b Sirur, Bombay, India d Oban County Hospital, Scotland Educated at Cheltenham; RMC and Sandhurst. DSO, OBE, MC, DL On Passing Out in December 1913, he became the youngest officer in the British Army. February 1914, 2Lt., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; was the first British officer to land on French soil in August 1914 and the first to be mentioned in Despatches; 1915, Capt.; 1918, Brigade Major; 1934-37, Commanding Officer at Stirling Castle; commanded 2nd Battalion Argylls in the Malayan Campaign, 1941-42; when Singapore fell to the Japanese, escaped in a destroyer; 1942, appointed Colonel and Chief Instructor, School of Infantry; 1943, transferred to South East Asia Command; 1944, Brigadier, General Staff, responsible for 11th Army Group Training; 1945, commanded 144 Infantry Brigade; in his last two years before retirement, commanded Stirling District; 1947, retired to Achnacone and thereafter farmed his 2,500 acre estate; of Achnacone, Appin, Argyll ; author: 'History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Bn.', '(The Thin Red Line) Malaysian Campaign, 1941-42'; pub. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1947. The only son of Lt. Col. Alexander Kenneth Stewart IMS, DL, JP of Achnacone, Appin, Argyll (Burke's LG, 1937). At the time of Brigadier Ian MacAlistair Stewart's birth, his father was a Surgeon-Major with the Poona Horse armoured regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. Ian MacAlister Stewart was buried in Holy Cross, Port-na-Croish, Appin, Scotland Taken from the family records of Robert (Robin) Morley Fletcher (1935-2015). (Vanessa Griffith July 2017) |
1: 1938 Marigold Almond Stewartc 2: 1940 Cherry Linnhe Stewartc H/C | |||||||||||||
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