The secretary of the Melbourne club, A. M. Gordon, together with H. S. Stiles and J. M. Stuart, of the Essendon club, left for Egypt last week. The latter, before leaving, affirmed his intention of changing his name to Abercrombie or a'Beckett, the reason being that when about to leave with the rest of his company on a previous transport the alphabetical position of his name had, when the steamer proved to be overcrowded at the last moment, been the cause of him waving a farewell to the transport instead of from it. A valuable tropical outfit was contained in his luggage, well stowed away in the hold, and though ordinarily a pronounced optimist,   Stuart, when recounting the experience, most emphatically insisted on materially altering that favorite memoriam consolation of 'Not lost but gone before.'

ATHLETICISMS. (1916, January 5). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 9. Retrieved September 14, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154556184

Unless Sergeant J. M. Stuart, the 1914-15 captain of the Essendon Harriers, has a military double, his photograph appears in the recently issued 'The Weekly Times Annual' of this city. The photograph is a group reproduction of Australians about to enter the trenches in France. Stuart appears in the front row with his 'tin hat' on his rifle. It is just a year ago last Saturday that Stuart ran in the Military Marathon from Broadmeadows to the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

ATHLETES. (1916, December 20). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 6. Retrieved November 11, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154553901

In a letter dated January to to Mr T. Cook, Harry Manners, the well-known St. Thomas' harrier, used the phrase under mention, but promises hearty support for all club affairs. Manners continues:— "I can report all well with the boys I have seen lately — Harry Fynmore, Rupert Terry, Pen. Gatliff, Harry M'Neill, Lieutenant Stan Bowman, and Captain Bowtell-Harris. All are 'in the pink.' Barker is in England. I met Paul Jacobsohn a week or so ago, also J. M. Stuart, of the Essendon Harriers. R. Ransom returned from furlough in England last week. It has been raining almost every day lately, and I can't see where the Sunny France part comes in at all."

En route from England is Sergeant   J. M. Stuart, the 1913-14 captain of the Essendon Harriers. It is nearly two years since Stewart left Melbourne; most of this time he spent in Egypt and France.

ATHLETES IN ARMS. (1917, June 13). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154545888

ATHLETES IN ARMS

SERGEANT JOCK STUART

In the issue of June 13 I stated that Sergeant J. M. Stuart, of the Essendon Harriers, was returning on an incoming transport. It appears that this was in error. The soldier announced as returning by the Defence Department is a cousin of the well-known Essendon  runner, holding, curiously enough the same rank and having the same initials. I have since received a letter from the Essendon captain himself written from France on May 9.   Indicated from 'Somewhere in the Stoush' it says: 'I guess the old clubs are pretty much thinned out now, and you do not see the usual, packs out these times. I wonder, will the old game be as popular when the brawl is over there will be a few faces missed. I have met a few of the old brigade since landing here. Right back in August when we were marching out of Pozieres after our first stunt I had the bad luck to sprain my ankle. We bivouaced for the night outside a town named Albert. I was lying on the bottom of an old trench when I heard a peal of laughter and said to myself, 'I would eat my tunic if that wasn't Alf. Wall's laugh. Just then someone yelled out, 'Is Jock Stuart about?' and sure enough it was A. G. Wall, accompanied by Arthur Dickinson, of Hawthorn. Both looked grand and we had a great yarn. I saw Billy Dickinson last November, also Horace Wheatley, marching out of the line for a spell. He looked a bit the worse for wear as did the rest of his battalion. A chap gave me 'The Winner' 'the other day; it made bad reading, the names of the boys passed out. Norman Jordan is in this unit and don't we have some great arguments over races and different events. It is Essendon versus East Melbourne all over again. Jordan and I hold provisional ranks of C.S.M. and Q.M.S. respectively."

ATHLETES IN ARMS. (1917, July 4). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154548935

A PROPER "READ-UP"  

'Had a birthday last week,' writes J. M. Stuart, of the Essendon Harriers (2/7/1917) from France, "when N. R. Jordan, of East Melbourne received a   parcel with four 'Winners' in it; quite a lot of interesting news, and we had a proper 'read up.' Am just completing six weeks' spell, but I suppose it will not be long before we are up where things burst though. I met T. N. Vines; about a fortnight back, looking very well. I questioned him as to what he got his Military Medal for, but he was oyster." Sergeant-Major Stuart's regimental number is 1879 and he is attached to the Operating Company of the 17th Anzac Light Railways.     

ATHLETES IN ARMS!. (1917, September 12). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154548408