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Captain Robert James Swanston

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Military service

Service number: 72552
Age: 25
Rank: Captain
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 422 Strike/Attack Squadron
Birth: February 26, 1943 Regina, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: September 13, 1960 Manitoba
Death: June 19, 1968 Baden Soellingen, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 4, Row A, Plot 16
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Son of Arnold and Irene Swanston. Husband of Anke (nee Friebe) Swanston of Victoria, British Columbia. Father of Angelie and Michael Swanston. Brother of William Swanston.

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.

The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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