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Gunner JOHN SWIFT

Service Number: 1111055
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1945

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

4. E. 5.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Catherine Swift, of Liverpool; husband of Mary B. Swift, of Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription I PRAYED FOR YOUR RETURN BUT GOD HAS WILLED THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN A BETTER LAND
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Buried or commemorated at

SUEZ WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 947
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