Roll of Honour

Sapper

David Andrew Stewart

BSc

David Andrew Stewart was born on 12th December 1890. His family home was at 12 Gardenside Terrace, Uddingston. His father, John, was a patternmaker. David went up to Glasgow University in 1908 to study Engineering and graduated BSc in 1911. He had a very successful undergraduate record, gaining a First Class Distinction in the Higher Mathematics class in 1909 and two further distinctions in Engineering the following year.

Memorial chapel at the University of Glasgow
The Memorial Chapel at the University of Glasgow

During the First World War he served as a sapper in 5 Field Company, the Royal Engineers. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 30th March 1918. David Andrew Stewart is commemorated at Pozieres where the Memorial honours those who fell in the crisis of March and April when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by superior numbers across the former Somme battlefields. In August the army began its successful final push to victory.

Comments and Citations

University of Glasgow Registry and General Council records

Biography: Further information contributed by the family

Memorial Place: Commonweal