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Military service
Service number:
H/6675
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 20, 1907
Gonvick
Enlistment:
September 28, 1939
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
December 22, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 28.
Additional information
Son of Adolph and Eileen Swanson of Vassar, Manitoba. Husband of Anna M. Swanson, of St. Martin, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Edwin Swanson
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Inscription
Private EDWIN SWANSON is one of 27 members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Private EDWIN SWANSON was reported Missing in Action, in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Photo of EDWIN SWANSON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Winnipeg Free Press 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Swanson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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