PENICUIK - SCOTLAND
St. Mungo's Churchyard
St. Mungo's Churchyard
Private Cossar Smith EWART
Born: Redland Bay, Queensland Enlisted: 23-2-1916, Brisbane, Queensland Occupation prior to Enlistment: Compositor 12th Australian Machine Gun Battalion Departed Australia 1-5-1916 Killed in Action 10-8-1917, Belgium aged 29years Son of Robert and Jane Ferguson Ewart Resting: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Messines, Flanders, Belgium Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 177 Memorialised St Mungo's Churchyard, Penicuik |
Gunner Cossar Smith Ewart, Australians, who has been killed in action, was a son of Mr Robert Ewart, Brisbane, Queensland, and nephew of Professor Cossar Ewart. the deceased soldier, who was 28 years of age, visited Penicuik last year, and called upon friends and relatives of his father and mother, who both belonged to the district. Mr Robert Ewart will be remembered as the popular quarter-master sergeant of the local volunteers before emigrating to Queensland. - Midlothian Journal 21-9-1917