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Private Duncan Wendell Stewart was born December 4, 1894 in Argyle, South River Lake, Guysborough County. He was the son of John Stewart and Christina Henderson. In 1916, Stewart immigrated to the United States and worked as a copper miner in Tombstone, Conchise County, Arizona.
Stewart enlisted in the Nova Scotia Railroad Construction and Forestry Depot with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, October 27, 1917 in Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia. He boarded the H.M.S. Canada in Halifax Novemeber 6, 1917 and arrived in Liverpool, England November 19, 1917. Upon arrival, Stewart was sent to the Canadian Forestry Corps Base Depot in Sunningdale, Berkshire. On December 24, 1917 he was transferred to the 21st Reserve Battalion in Bramshott, Hampshire. Stewart was sent to France on April 7, 1918 to serve with the 49th Infantry Battalion. where he joined the unit on the field April 16, 1918. Stewart attended a course with the Canadian Infantry School October 8, 1918 and returned to the field November 16, 1918. In February of 1919, Stewart was sent to Ripon, England for demobolization. He returned to Canada in March of 1919 and was discharged due to dembolization in Halifax, March 15, 1919.
Following the war, Stewart returned to Arizona to work in the mines. He is listed as a copper miner in the 1920 United States Federal Census, and living in Lowell, Conchise County, Arizona. By 1923, Stewart had returned to Nova Scotia and was living in South River Lake, Guysborough County. On July 26, 1923 Stewart married Janet Ester Elsie MacIntosh of Loch Katrine, Antigonish County in Truro, Colchester County. They moved to a farm at Copper Lake, Antigonish County in the 1920s where Stewart worked as a farmer. They had a son, Harold, born in 1927 and a son John, born in 1929. Their youngest child, Sophie, was born in 1939. Stewart resided at his home in Copper Lake until 1950, when he was hospitalized at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax for Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Stewart died November 23, 1952 at Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax. He is buried in King’s United Church Cemetery, Loch Katrine, Antigonish County.
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