41 Mechanic Street
Stanley Stewart
Stanley George Stewart, along with his brother Sydney Edward, were the oldest of four brothers to serve in the Second World War. They were the sons of Sydney Arthur Stewart and his wife Matilda May Harvey.
According to Ancestry.ca, the Stewart family seems to have emigrated from England to Canada on two separate occasions. The first time they went to Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan with their oldest son William. They had three daughters in Saskatchewan and then returned to Epping, England where they had four more sons: Donald (1920), Sidney Edward (1922), Stanley George (1924) and Arthur Wesley (1926). The family returned to Canada in 1926, to Paris, where Russell Kenneth was born in July, 1928. Two younger brothers, Frederick and Leonard, were born later, and would have been too young to serve during the Second World War.
The Stewart family was living at 41 Mechanic Street during the war. We know little of Stanley’s early life, but during WW2, he enlisted with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. His regiment was part of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps which took part in the D-Day invasion.
Private Stanley Stewart was 19 years old when he was killed in action. He is buried at the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Normandy.
(Much of this information is found in the Canadian Virtual War Memorial created by Veterans Affairs Canada)
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