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Private JOSEPH ALEXANDER SWINTON

Service Number: 850200
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MEZIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

A. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James Swinton and Catharine Heysel Swinton, of Thorold, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

MEZIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 134
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