Stewart, Colin C. 16269 (1895 - 1916)

Private, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry

Buried at Lonsdale Cemetery

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

Private Colin C. Stewart, son of ex-Bailie John Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, Ardsheal, Scotstounhill, was educated at Hillhead High School and Morrison's Academy, Crieff. At School, both here and in Crieff, he was an active member of the O.T.C. (Junior Division), and when war began he quickly responded to the call of King and country, and enlisted in the Chamber of Commerce Battalion, where he had for comrades many of his old schoolfellows.

In November, 1915, he went to France, where he was severely wounded. He was in hospital for three months, and, after a short holiday at home, he again went to the Front.

On the 1st of July, 1916, he was killed while storming the German trenches at La Boiselle. A comrade, writing home to Bailie Stewart, said, "We had advanced on the German trenches, and between the first and the second lines your son fell. He was a perfect soldier, cheery ever. We were both in the same section, and it may help you a little to know that no one was more loved for his kindness or more admired for his bravery than he."

Could one ask for a more beautiful and touching epitaph?