Stuart Mclaren's Story.
Stuart McLaren Harvie was born in 1898 in Bidston, Cheshire, the fourth son of stockbroker John W Harvie and Edith McLaren, of Kingsmead, Bidston.
Stuart was educated at Moorland House School, Heswall and then Charterhouse. He later entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in 1917.
2nd Lieutenant Harvie was a good all-round athlete, an excellent horseman, and a keen follower of the Wirral Harriers.
He served in France from March 1918 but died a few months later on the 1st June from a wound received in action at Vermelles La Bassee Canal, the previous month. He was buried at Pernes-en-Artois British Cemetery.
Just a couple of weeks later his older brother Captain Eric Fulton Harvie MC was also killed, however two other brothers, Reginald Blair Harvie (15th Hussars), and John Keith Harvie (3rd King’s Own Hussars) continued to serve and both survived the war.
Stuart is remembered along with his older brother, Eric on the Bidston War Memorial, the memorial at Trinity with Palm Grove Church, Oxton and on the family grave at Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead.
Bidston War Memorial
Research, Stuart M Harvie's photograph and photographs of both Bidston War Memorial and the memorial inside Trinity with Palm Grove Church by Chris Booth