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