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Private Lawrence Roland Stewart

Portrait of a soldier wearing peak hat.

Pte. Stewart
1918. The Christmas Echo: Honour Roll Number. LLSC.

CEF no. 823450

Lawrence Stewart worked in London, ON, as a pressman at Lawson & Jones Ltd, a lithography and printing company. He enlisted in the 26th Reserve Battalion on 22 December 1915 at the age of twenty-one. While a part of the 9th Canadian Machine Gun Company, Pte. Stewart was reported missing in action on 26 October 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele. He was presumed dead after 17 June 1918 and his status was officially changed to “killed in action” by the end of 1920.

He is commemorated on page 332 of the First World War Book of Remembrance (Memorial Chamber, Peace Tower, Parliament Hill).

Grave: Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Belgium.

Lawson and Jones Ltd where Pte. Stewart worked 1914 Gardner, H.W., ed. London Ontario 1914. London, Ontario: London Free Press, ca. 1914.

Lawson and Jones Ltd, Pte. Stewart’s Workplace
1914. Gardner, H.W., ed. London, ON, London Free Press.