Stuart, Francis Lee
Rank: Driver
Regiment: Signal Section, Royal Field Artillery
Biography: Son of Robert Stuart, slater ; born Aberdeen, 27 January 1883 ; educated Robert Gordon's College and Central Higher Grade School ; student in Arts, 1904-08. He took a keen interest in all 'Varsity sports, and was very popular, possessing the ready "give and take" of the real sportsman. In 1908 he entered the teaching profession and held appointments in Bervie, Elgin and the Higher Grade School, Aboyne, and in all of them proved his ability as a teacher. Joining the Royal Field Artillery in January 1917, Stuart was immediately transferred to the Signal Section, stationed first in Edinburgh and then in Aldershot. After a few months training he crossed as a First Class Signaller to France, and on 3 May 1918 he was killed at an Observation Post, while mending a wire under heavy shell fire.
Date of Death: 03 May 1918
Burial Details: Buried at Couin New British Cemetery, Plot 1, Row D, Grave 27.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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