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Gunner RICHARD SWIFT

Service Number: 1640308
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

409 Bty., 79 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 30 March 1941

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIGAN CEMETERY

Sec. J. R.C. Grave 6.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Ralph and Elisabeth Swift; husband of Cecilia Swift, of Wigan.
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Buried or commemorated at

WIGAN CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 191
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