LATE COLONEL STEWART

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 5

LATE COLONEL STEWART

A FRIEND'S' TRIBUTE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Chrlstchuroh, May L Colonel G. J. Smith, Commanding the Canterbury Infantry Brigade, tvlio was seen soon after the death of Colonel Macßean Stewart, whom he had known, said: "Colonel Stewart's death comes as a great shock. We expect casualties, but wo always expect that it will be men we do not know rather than men we lmow. My mind goes back to many years of friendship and soldiering we spent together, and I feel that I have lost a close friend and a gooc! comrade, the best pjace to get to know a man as he is is in camp life, with its varied experiences, and on that lest Colonel Stewart stood out as a man to bo admired and respected. "He was a keen officer. He took great interest in his work, and took the trouble to interest his men in the work with him, the result being that he had one of the best companies in Christchurch and was himself one of the most popular officers. 'He was the first officer commanding the Canterbury .Highland Rifles, and it was as captain of that company that he got hir experience of volunteering "He was a man who set very high ideals -as far as military work was con- I cerned, and he tried to live up to tho high ideals ho set before him." I