Stewart, Anthony D.
Marine Lance corporal

Anthony D. Stewart, age 19, from Yonkers, New York, Westchester county.

Service era: Gulf War

Parent: Yvonne Stewart-Hall

Date of death: Saturday, December 29, 1990
Death details: He was sitting on a his cot in Saudi Arabia cleaning a gun when he was shot in the head by another soldier. Another Marine was cleaning his M-16 in his tent when his weapon discharged. That soldier, 19, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and dereliction of duty. His sentence was commuted. Stewart’s family said they were told initially that Anthony committed suicide. A later version was he accidentally killed himself.

Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, New York Newsday (1991), Yonkers Daily Voice