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Scotland. On the 26th January, 1944 his training here was interrupted while he attended and instrument flying course with No. 1542 Beam Approach Training Flight also at Dallachy. At the conclusion of this course he resumed his training with the Advanced Flying Unit. He was next posted on the 2nd May 1944 to No. 26 Operational Training Unit, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire to crew-up and train on Wellington Bomber aircraft. Following this he was posted on the 2nd September 1944 to No. 1657 Conversion Unit, Stradishall, Suffolk to convert to Stirling bombers and on the 10th October he proceeded to No. 1699 Conversion Unit to complete his training on Fortress heavy bombers. While with this latter unit he took part in an operational flight against the target of Brunswick, Germany. On the 1st November 1944 he was posted to No. 214 Squadron, Oulton, Norfolk. With this Squadron as Captain of a Fortress heavy bomber he took part in a further twenty-nine operational flights, bringing his total to thirty. These further flights included attacks on Oberhausen, Bochum, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, Koblenz, Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe, Krefeld, Bocholt, Duisburg (2), Ulm, Cologne, Osnabruck, Hamburg (2), Frankfurt, Hanover, Hamm, Stettin, Leipzig (3), Bonn and Sylt Island all in Hamburg; Oslo in Norway, and a coastal patrol and intruder raid ranging over Southern France.

Flying Officer Stewart was captain of a Fortress bomber which took off on air operations on the 7th March 1945 to attack the target of Hamburg. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew including Flying Officer Stewart (redacted was) were classified as missing. After due time had elapsed, Flying Officer Stewart's death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 7th March 1945. Enquiries by the Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Unit made subsequent to the cessation of hostilities established that he had been buried in the Elstorf cemetery and at a later date he was re-buried in the Soltau Becklingsen British Military Cemetery.