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Commencing operational flying with this squadron he took part in twenty-four operational flights comprising attacks on Essen (3), Schweinmunde, Cologne, Bremen (4), Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and Saarbrucken all in Germany; Danzig in the Polish Corridor, and Cherbourg and Le Havre in France, together with an attack on the German battleships "Sharnhorst" and "Gneisnau", three sorties minelaying in enemy waters and three anti-submarine patrols.

From the attack on Saarbrucken undertaken on the night of the 29/30 July, 1942 as captain of a Lancaster heavy bomber, his aircraft failed to return to its base and all its crew was classified as missing. Later, information was received from a German source through the International Red Cross that Pilot Officer Stewart had lost his life and he was in consequence reclassified as missing believed killed in action and after due time had elapsed his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 30th July 1942 as the result of air operations. Subsequent to the cessation of hostilities it was learned that the aircraft had been brought down at Vrizy, Northern France, and that Pilot Officer Stewart was buried in the Vrizy (redacted Commercial) Communal Cemetery.

Find a Grave link with photos of P/O Stewart: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33767498/jack_graham-stewart/photo

5/2/2950 A.S.2.
498 hours as pilot. (underlined)

Mrs. G. ROSE (W) (right aligned)
223 College Street (right aligned)
PALMERSTON NORTH (right aligned & underlined)