Bandsman 7770 Peter Swift
Regiment/Unit: Leinster Regiment - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1)
Date Entered Therein: 19/12/1914
Age at death: 23
Date of death: 4th of May 1915
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Guards Cemetery Lesboeufs - XI. S. 6.
Family details:
Address from MIC: 67 Wilson St, St Helens. Brother & Sole Legatee: John.
Census details:
1901 - 9 years old Peter is an inmate at Prescot Union Workhouse and Nurses Home, Whiston Hospital. 1911 - Sees 19 years old 'Private' Peter is with the 1st Leinster Regiment and based at North Raglan Barracks, Devonport.
Notes:
Age taken from census.
Age taken from census.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/7770PeterSwift.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]tpics/7770_Peter_Swift.png[/pic][caption]Ireland, Casualties of World War I[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/P_Swift_Leinster.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Bandsman Peter Swift at Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs
(Photograph courtesy of Richard Houghton.)[/caption]
