Early Life
Stewart was born in 1895, part of the Stewart family of Appin in Argyllshire. His place of birth, in Surore, Poone, India, was where his father, Lt.Col Alexander Kenneth Stewart, 12th of Achnacone, was a medical officer in the Poona Horse before his parents returned to Scotland. Stewart attended Cheltenham College before going to Sandhurst on a prize cadetship. He passed through Sandhurst in 1913 as the top student of his year and the youngest.
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