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Corporal WILLIE SWANN

Service Number: 2959
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 July 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FORCEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

Plot 2. Row B Grave 12.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 147th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert William and Mary Hannah Swann, of Lindley, near Huddersfield.
  • Personal Inscription EVER LOVED & REMEMBERED BY MOTHER & FAMILY.
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Buried or commemorated at

FORCEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 309
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