William Alfred – Swann – Great Eastern Railway – Private [Lance Corporal] – 06/10/1917

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Title

William Alfred – Swann – Great Eastern Railway – Private [Lance Corporal] – 06/10/1917

Initials / forenames

William Alfred

Surname

Swann

Railway company

Great Eastern Railway

Military unit

Scots Guards, 2nd Battalion

Military rank

Private [Lance Corporal]

Military number

13869

Railway department

Roydon

Railway job

Porter

Date died

06/10/1917

Magazine reference

Great Eastern Railway Magazine: September 1919, p184

Memorial

Canada Farm Cemetery

Notes

Age 22, son of Henry Charles & Sarah Dorothy Swann of Cold Harbour Farm, Stanstead Abbots, Ware, Hertfordshire. He was a native of Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. He was with the GER for a few months. He enlisted in 1915. He was killed in action. <br /><br />The GER magazine gives a date of death in September 1917.

Information source

St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919; Great Eastern Railway Magazine (Image: Great Eastern Railway Society); Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Date entered

03/10/2016

Last updated

03/10/2016

Citation

“William Alfred – Swann – Great Eastern Railway – Private [Lance Corporal] – 06/10/1917,” Fallen Railwaymen, accessed May 17, 2024, https://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/items/show/44875.