STEWART, John Bartholomew
| Service Numbers: | W27570, W59677, 1018 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 February 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Petty Officer |
| Last Unit: | 10 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Newtown Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland, 17 March 1899 |
| Home Town: | Dalwallinu, Dalwallinu, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer - Unemployed |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 24 March 1967, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W27570, 10 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
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| 19 Feb 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W27570, 10 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
| 25 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W59677 | |
| 2 Dec 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W59677 | |
| 3 Dec 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, 1018 | |
| 1 Oct 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer, 1018 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Petty Officer John Bartholomew Stewart (Service No:1018) served in the ACMF on two occasions - from 12 February 1941 to 19 February 1942 as a Private (Service No:W27570) with 10 Garrison Battalion and from 25 February 1942 to 2 December 1942 as a Private (Service No:W59677) with 4 Field Survey Coy - classified Axeman. He then enlisted in the RAN on 3 December 1942 and was a Petty Officer/Constable 1st Class with the RAN Police, attached to HMAS Leeuwin at Discharge on 1 October 1945. Eldest brother James (WWI Service No:16758; WWII Service No:Q191515) and Bob (KiA WWI; Service No:4235) served in the Australian Army - all three brothers claimed to have served in the Royal Scots/Scots Guards in their Attestation Papers
John was born in Wigtownshire, Scotland in 1898, youngest of six children of James Stewart (b1860 in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland) and Elizabeth Dodds (b1862 in Wigtownshire, Scotland). James (a Corporal in the Royal Scots Fusiliers) and Elizabeth (a Domestic Servant) married in Renfrewshire in 1883. They lived in Ayresgire and Wigtownshire, where James worked as a Woodcutter, Plate Layer, Labourer, Salmon Fisher and Scavenger. The family immigrated after 1901, and were in Fremantle WA in 1911 when James died. Elizabeth and some of the children returned to Scotland until after WWI, when they returned to WA.
John was living in Dalwallinu - as were brother Bob (a Farmer) and sisters Mary Agnes (a Domestic Servant at Red Hill Station) and Christina (a Nurse). John worked as a Farm Labourer and Farmer and was unemployed in 1940 when he enlisted in the ACMF in Perth. Following his Discharge in 1946, John returned to Dalwallinu where he was a Farmer on Kalibidi Farm until the mid 1960s when he moved to Perth. John died in 1967.