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Military service
Rank:
Sailor
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division:
SV. W.C. McKay, schooner
Death:
January 10, 1918
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Husband of Mrs. John Stewart, of North Strand, Drogheda, Ireland.
Some websites claim that the schooner W.C. McKay was sunk by a German submarine off the Azores. However, no German commander claimed in his logbook to have sent her to the bottom. Her fate is unknown.
Digital gallery of Sailor John Stewart
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
Digital gallery of
Sailor John Stewart
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 67 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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