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Private WILFRED JOHN SWAFFIELD

Service Number: 16538
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 February 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEAUMONT-HAMEL BRITISH CEMETERY

B. 42.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Jane Swaffield, of Stoke Abbott, Beaminster, Dorset.
  • Personal Inscription YEA,THOU SHALT LIE DOWN AND THY SLEEP SHALL BE SWEET
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Buried or commemorated at

BEAUMONT-HAMEL BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 181
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