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Private JOHN SWAN

Service Number: 790885
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

47th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 05 July 1917

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION

Sallaumines Memorial.

France

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Photographer: Johan Pauwels

  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of David and Helen Swan, of Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland; husband of Jessie Swan, of Elsness, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED UNTIL THE DAY DAWN
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Buried or commemorated at

BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 764
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