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Military service
Service number:
D/82762
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
August 17, 1911
Newcastle-On-Tyne, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
August 12, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 8.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Jane Ann Scott Swainson.
Digital gallery of Private John Lockey Scott Swainson
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Photo of John Swainson
John Swainson taken before heading off to join World War II and the Black Watch, probably from a local newspaper, The Standard Freeholder of Cornwall, Ontario. This photo was saved by a resident of Milles Roches in a scrapbook about local men and the war. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private John Lockey Scott Swainson
Digital gallery of
Private John Lockey Scott Swainson
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Commemorated on:
Page 456 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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