Serjeant 6917 George Swift
Regiment/Unit: South Staffordshire Regiment - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Date Entered Therein: 12/08/1914
Age at death: 36
Date of death: 26th of October 1917
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial - Panel 90 to 92 and 162 to 162A.
Family details:
Son of William and Hannah Swift. Address from MIC: Mrs Mary Wilson, Prescott Hall, Prescot, Lancashire. Sister & Sole Legatee: Mary Wilcox(?)
Census details:
1901 - George 7 is living with his parents William 33, Hannah 34 and siblings Annie 9, William 6, John Joseph 4 and Henry 1 at the Grapes Hotel, 83 Atlas Street, St Helens. Living with the family is Mary A Wilson 1911 - George 17 single described as a Hawker is living with his parents William 43, Hannah 44 and siblings Annie 19, William 16, John Joseph 14, Henry 11 and Peter Edward 7 at 135 Merton Bank Road This census information does not tally with CWGC and George being aged 36 when he died in 1917.
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[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/6917GeorgeSwift.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/sppics/Sgt_G_Swift_SStaffs.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Serjeant George Swift on the Tyne Cot Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
