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In memory of:

Private Joseph Alexander Swinton

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Military service

Service number: 850200
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 3rd Bn.
Birth: October 9, 1897
Death: August 11, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: A. 9.
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Son of James Swinton and Catharine Heysel Swinton, of Thorold, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 509 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MEZIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France

Mezieres is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the south-west side of the main road from Amiens to Roye, 20 kilomtres south-east of Amiens. The MEZIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the Communal Cemetery.

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