In 1901 the Stewart family were living at Walnut Grove, Kinfauns, Perthshire: Father, James (Estate Joiner), b. c1860, Blair Atholl; Mother, Charlotte, b. c1864, Methven; Son, Archibald, b. c1890, Perth; Son, John, b. c1892, Perth; Son, Alexander, b. c1893, Perth; Daughter. Janet, b. c1897, Perth; and Son, James, b. c1899, Perth. By 1911 Archibald was a Student Teacher, and John was a Blacksmith. Another son, Charles was born in 1902. In 1911 Alexander Stewart was living at 25 Ballantine Place, Perth, and was employed as a Clerk in a Dye Works. He enlisted with the Black Watch, and went to France at the end of 1915. He died of his wounds on 31st August 1916, probably in No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station. Extract from Wauchope’s History of the Black Watch in the Great War “On the 16th (August) the Battalion moved by train to Steenwerck, and marched to Armentières, where it received a cordial welcome from the New Zealanders it had come to relieve. One night only was spent in the town, the 6th taking over the front line in advance of the ruins of Houplines the following day. There had been no great activity in this sector since the autumn of 1914. " ... Much useful patrol work was accomplished in continuation of the activities of the New Zealanders...The raids usually followed the release of British poison gas from cylinders sunk in the front trenches, and were undertaken with varying success; one of these carried out by the Battalion during the night of August 30th was attended by heavy casualties caused mainly by enemy artillery fire and accumulation of British gas in a low lying part of No Man’s Land. "Out of a specially trained force of forty all ranks, the losses on this occasion were two officers and 21 men wounded, some of whom subsequently died.” While there is no definitive record of how and when Alexander Stewart lost his life it is likely that he was one of these casualties and died in a Casualty Clearing Station of wounds he received during this action at Houplines. He was 24 years old. Perthshire Constitutional, 1916 “Private Alex. Stewart, 6th Black Watch, son of Mr and Mrs James Stewart, 34 Atholl Street, Perth, who died of wounds on 31st August. He was about 24 years of age, and prior to enlistment early in 1915, was a member of the clerical staff of the Caledonian Railway Company at Paisley. He was a native of Perth.” Alexander Stewart is also commemorated on the Perth Congregational Church War Memorial; and the Caledonian Railway Company War Memorial, Glasgow Central Station.