Stuart

The Men

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STUART, HERBERT

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Private
4919733
25/09/1944
38
Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
I. C. 10.
Loved and honoured. Eldest son of Douglas and Esther Stuart. Birkenhead Cheshire England.

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Son of Douglas and Esther Stuart, of Birkenhead.

Wounded during the battles around the hamlet of Voorheide, Belgium. Died of his wounds at the fieldhospital in the village of Meerveldhoven where he was initialy buried.

Initial gravesite at Meerveldhoven.

From the service records of Herbert Stuart, the following account can be reconstructed.

Herbert Stuart was born on 2 March 1916 in Birkenhead, Cheshire. In civilian life he worked as a grocer’s assistant. He was described as being 5 feet 5¾ inches tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. He was unmarried.

He enlisted in the British Army on 15 March 1940, joining the South Staffordshire Regiment. Herbert was deployed to North-West Europe on 27 June 1944 as part of the Allied campaign following the Normandy landings. During the campaign, he was transferred on 14 August 1944 to the Norfolk Regiment, and shortly afterwards, on 26 August 1944, to the South Wales Borderers/Monmouthshire Regiment.

Herbert Stuart died of wounds on 25 September 1944.