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Company Sergeant Major William Henry Swainston

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Military service

Service number: 769747
Age: 21
Rank: Company Sergeant Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Engineers
Division: 10th Bn.
Birth: July 18, 1897
Death: August 10, 1918

Burial/memorial information

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: III. B. 6.
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Son of William Henry and Ellen Quinn Swainston, of Port Credit, Ontario.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 509 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Fouquescourt is a village in the Department of the Somme, 35.5 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The Fouquescourt British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.

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