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Military service
Service number:
B/37351
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
March 10, 1920
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 1, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 Column 1
Additional information
Son of Henry L. and Mary Margaret Stewart, of Dundas, Ontario. Brother of William, Mary, Annie and Private James Thomas Stewart, who died on August 19, 1942 while serving with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, CVSM & Clasp.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
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Photo of Harry Crawford Stewart and medals
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Photo (2) of Harry Crawford Stewart and medals
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Lance Corporal HARRY CRAWFORD STEWART is one of six members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Globe & Mail, July 31, 1944 -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator .c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Harry Crawford Stewart
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 117 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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