J.E.Stewart

[Chris]

Has anyone on the Forum ever heard of the soldier-poet J. E. Stewart (1889-1918)?

 

Stewart, who was killed at Ypres on 26th April 1918, wrote the poem 'On Revisiting the Somme'.

The poem can be found on p. 113 in Selected Poetry of the First World War (Wordsworth Poetry Library, London, 1995).

 

The CWGC search engine does not seem to hold a specific record on him.

 

Thank you for any useful hints with regard to this query.

 

Chris 

[Stace]

Hallo Chris,

Why the interest in this particular poet?

John Ebenezer Stewart is listed in Vivien Noakes's 'Voices of Silence' (2006) where he has 2 poems: 'At Thiepval' and 'Before Action'.

Quoting from the book:

'Enlisted as Private in the Highland Light Infantry, 1914; commissioned into the Border Regt, 1914; to France, Seotember 1915; fought in the Battle of the Somme and in the Ypres salient; awarded MC, 1917; wounded during the Battle of Messines, June 1917; promoted Captain; transferred to South Staffordshire Regt and commanded 4th Battn; killed near Kemmel, 26 April 1918. His body was never found and his name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial'.

I went to the CWGC site and dug this out:

STEWART, JOHN EBENEZAR

Captain

26/04/1918

29

Border Regiment

United Kingdom

Panel 85 to 86.

TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Hope this helps.

Stace