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Private JOE SYKES SWIFT

Service Number: 5630
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

1st/6th Bn. attd. 1st/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. B. 153.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mark William and Anne Eliza Swift, of 14, Tavern St., Wakefield.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE FROM MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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