Bertrand Stewart

Bertrand Stewart
Born	December 1872 38 Eaton Place London, England
Died	12 September 1914(1914-09-12) (aged 41) Near the River Vesle Battle of the Marne
Buried	Braisne Communal Cemetery A3
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Rank	Captain
Commands held	Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Queen's South Africa Medal
Spouse(s)	Amy Daphne, daughter of Lt.-Colonel George Kendall Priaulx
Other work	Spy, solicitor

Bertrand Stewart (December 1872 – 12 September 1914) worked as a solicitor in London and was also a military officer in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, he fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War. In between the two wars he volunteered to spy on German naval actions. He was famously arrested in Germany on 2 August 1911 and sentenced to four years in prison. Stewart and another British spy, Captain Trench, were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to Ernest Augustus the Duke of Brunswick when Augustus married the Kaiser's daughter, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.^[1] He died fighting off a German attack near the River Vesle during the Battle of the Marne.^[2]