▶Date of birth: 12 September 1892     Place of birth: Bushbury, Staffordshire

▶Father: Harry Warry Steward    Mother: Elizabeth Knowles

▶Spouse(s): Cunitia Charlotte Atwood Morris   Date(s) of marriage: 1918   Place(s) of marriage: London

▶Occupation: Captain, South Wales Borderers

▶Lifestory: Cheltenham Chronicle 10 Aug. 1929

LOCAL OBITUARY. CAPT, C. K. STEWARD, D.S.O., M.C. Death In Cairo.

We regret to record the death, which occurred at Cairo on the 1st Inst., of Captain Charles Knowles Steward, D S.O., of the South Wales Borderers. The only son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Harry Warry Steward, of the 1st Staffordshire Regiment, of Northway House, near Tewkesbury, and of Mrs. Steward, of Wyddrington House, Cheltenham, he was born on September 13th, 1892, and had thus attained his 37th year. He was educated at Cheltenham College, entering the school in January, 1907, and leaving in July, 1910.

The same year he entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and the following year obtained a commission in the South Wales Borderers Regiment. He served through the Great War, being thrice mentioned in despatches, and being wounded in France. He was made Captain in 1915. He was awarded the British war medal, the Victory medal, the D.S.O., and the Military Cross. He was a member the United Services Club.

His body was brought back to England and rested overnight in the church having been brought from Tilbury Docks on Friday (16th Aug).

▶Moved to Pittville from:    Moved from Pittville to:

▶Date of death: 1 August 1929   Place of death: Cairo, Egypt

▶Date of burial: 17 August 1929    Place of burial: St Nicholas Church, Ashchurch

▶Notes:  A number of newspaper articles suggest that when Charles died aged 36 it was because of the wounds he had received during WW1.

Gloucester Journal 19 April 1930: Memorial Tablet Ashchurch.

A faculty has also been granted to Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, of Wyddrington House, Pittville Lawn, Cheltenham, for the erection of a memorial tablet of Hopton Wood stone on the south wall of the nave of the parish church of Ashchurch with the following inscription "In proud, loving memory of my son Charles Knowles Steward, D.S.O., M.C., Capt. South Wales Borderers in the Great War, where he was severely Wounded. ‘The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.’ A tribute from his mother."

ID: 16134     Contributor(s): David Drinkwater