Sergeant Daniel Stewart M.M.

Sergeant Daniel Stewart,  M.M., 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. He was killed in action in France, aged 28, on 3rd May 1917 during the Battle of Arras and is buried in Drury Crucifix Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He had been born in Greenlaw and was the son of John and Catherine Stewart of Todrig, Hume. He had enlisted in November 1914 and was posted to his Battalion in late 1915. The award of his Military Medal was announced in July 1917. The Battalion was involved in an attack near the village of Monchy but due to a weak ineffective bombardment and intense hostile machine gun fire could not breach the German wire and were forced to lie all day out in the scorching sun. The survivors regained British lines when darkness fell. Casualties were heavy but the Regimental History only mentions the 5 Officers who were killed. The  photographs show troops accompanied by a tank in the main street of a captured village near Arras.