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Gnr. William Swinhoe
British Army 286th Brigade, B Battery, Royal Field Artillery

(d.28th Mar 1918)
William Swinhoe died aged 28. Born in Jarrow in 1889 he was the son of William and Catherine Swinhoe (nee Wear) later of 94 Grange Road Bermondsey London. In the 1911 Census William Swinhoe, age 22, a Lead Worker at a Waterworks, is listed as living with his parents, William & Catherine Swinhoe & family at 10, Silver Street, Rotherhithe. He enlisted in Newcastle and first served in France on 12th May 1915.
William is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery Extension.

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