Maj.-Gen. Sir James Marshall Stewart window - St Andrew - Whitchurch, Devon - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial window to Maj.Gen. Sir James Marshall Stewart K.C.B., K.C.M.G., 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, in St Andrew's church, Whitchurch.

His obituary in The Times, Thursday, July 22 1943, reads:

"Mjor-General Sir James Marshall Stewart, K.C.B., .K.C.M.G., late The Royal Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, died at his home at Whitchurch, Tavistock, Devon, on Tuesday, at the age of 81. Few officers of the Indian Army have had a more distinguished record. His experience of the Frontier was unusually extensive and varied — an excellent cricketer and an all-round sportsman, he proved himself as admirable leader in hill warfare. During the last war he held important commands in East Africa and at Aden.
The son of the Hon. Alexander Stewart, he was born on August 9, 1861, and was educated at Clifton and Malvern. In 1881 he was gazetted to The Gloucestershire Regiment, transferring to the Indian service (Bombay Army) in 1883. In that year, while attached to the 1st Sikh Infantry, he gained his first experience of active service with the Takht-i-Suliman survey expedition. In 1885 he pined the 5th Gurkhas and served in the Hazara campaign of 1888. Soon afterwards he was selected for employment as a political officer and he was mentioned ik dispatches for his services with the Chin-Lushai expedition of 1889-90. He commanded the Khyber Rifles in the Hazara expedition of 1891.
IA 1892 he was promoted to captain, and became adjutant of the 1/5th Gurkhas. He served in the Waziristan expedition of 1894-95, and was present at Wana when 1,500 Mahsuds attempted to rush the camp by night. He acted_ as. D.A.A. and Q.M.G. of the Waziristan Force during the Chitral campaign of 1895. In the summer of 1899 he was A.D.C. to the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. When the China Expeditionary Force was organized in 1900, in consequence of the Boxer risings, he became D.A.A.G., 2nd Brigade, being mentioned in dispatches and promoted brevet major. He was appointed to the command of the 1/9th Gurkhas in 1904, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1905. In 1906 be returned to his own regiment to command the 2nd Battalion, which he led with signal success during the operations of 1908 in the Zakka Khel country, christened by Punch " Wilkockes week-end war." Colonel Stewart was appointed A.D.C. to the King and given the brevet of colonel. He brought to an end his active career on the Frontier with Young-husband's expedition to Lhasa, 1903-04. Substantive promotion to colonel came in 1911, the year in which he was created C.B.
The outbreak of the last war called Colonel Stewart to British East Africa in August, 1914, and he conducted an active defence of Uganda, commanding the force from Kisumu which crossed Lake Victoria and attacked and captured Bukoba. In June 1915, he was promoted major-general. When Smuts opened his offensive against Lettow-Vorbeck in 1916, General Stewart commanded the 1st Division, which made a successful advance from Longido, but he returned from East Africa soon afterwards to take up the appointment of General Officer Commanding the troops at Aden, where be was also the chief political authority. He had only a slender force at his disposal, but he held the Turks in check until the Armistice. In 1919 he was created K.C.M.G., and in the following year commanded during the operations in Somaliland. He was made K.C.B. in 1924, and served as colonel of his old regiment, the 5th Gurkhas, 1927-31. During 1923 he acted as Chief Commissioner of the British Red Cross Society in Greece and the Near East.
General Stewart married Barbara Marion, the youngest child of Major the Hon. L. A. Addington, RA., in 1897,.and they had one daughter."

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