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Corporal JOHN SWINN

Service Number: 1020324
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 23 May 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AMBON WAR CEMETERY

13. C. 14.

Indonesia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Edith Ellen Swinn, of Doncaster, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription LORD, MAKE THE NATIONS SEE THAT MEN SHOULD BROTHERS BE, THE WIDE WORLD O'ER
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Buried or commemorated at

AMBON WAR CEMETERY
Indonesia
Number of casualties: 2147
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