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George Redvers Hudson Banks Stewart was born on 16 January 1921, the elder son of Mabel Banks (née Sparks) and Redvers Buller Stewart, a Calcutta jute merchant. His parents returned to India shortly after the birth of his younger brother, leaving the two boys in the care of his aunts at Kirriemuir in Scotland. George Stewart was educated at Trinity College Glenalmond from 1934 to 1939.
George Stewart entered Worcester College, Oxford, on 13 October 1939 with an exhibition, but left to teach at Trinity College, Glenalmond in 1940. In 1941 he gave up his place at Worcester College, without taking a degree, and joined the armed forces. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) on 14 March 1942, and was subsequently wounded at the Battle of El Alamein.
On 7 July 1943 the 5th Battalion Black Watch landed at Sicily and advanced inland. On 21 July 1943 they relieved the 5/7th Battalion Gordon Highlanders on the right of the village of Sferro. On 23 July 1943 they came under heavy shell fire, during which Lieutenant George Stewart was killed. He was 22 years old.
George Stewart is buried at Catania War Cemetery on Sicily and commemorated on the war memorial at Worcester College, Oxford.