Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book=SWAN, ANDREW CAMPBELL=, Private, No. 7376, 1/4th Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Walter Johnston Swan, of Reston, co. Berwick, Tailor and Clothier, by his wife, Mary Rose, dau. of William Rose, of Duns; _b._ Reston, 5 July, 1896; educ. Reston Public School; volunteered and enlisted, 23 Nov. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Asturias, 13 July, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; _unm._ Buried in Base Cemetery at Cape Helles. [Illustration: =Andrew Campbell Swan.=] =SWAN, GEORGE=, Private, No 15479, 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers, _s._ of David Swan, of 21, Sloan Street, Leith, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Fairweather; _b._ Bathgate, co. Linlithgow, 25 Aug. 1878; educ. Bathgate Academy; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 5 Nov. 1899; served in the South African War, 1899-1902, with the 1st Battn. (Queen's medal with five clasps); transferred to the 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers in 1913; went to France, 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Chapelle d'Armentières, 18 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Buried there. His brother, Pioneer James Blair Swan, was killed in action at the same place (see following notice). [Illustration: =George Swan.=] =SWAN, JAMES BLAIR=, Pioneer, No. 1975, 1/9th Battn. Royal Scots (Highlanders), yst. _s._ of David Swan, of 21, Sloan Street, Leith, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Fairweather; _b._ Ballark House, Nairn, 19 Aug. 1893; educ. Leith; was a Joiner with Drysdale & Son, Leith; joined the Royal Scots on the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914; trained at Edinburgh; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Chapelle d'Armentières, 15 July, 1915; _unm._ 2nd Lieut. H. M. Wardrop wrote: "He was killed up here in the trenches while putting up barbed wire in front of the reserve trench. He was in the act of driving in a post when a stray bullet grazed his rifle and entered into his back, passing right through him. He suffered no pain, as he never regained consciousness and passed away just as we got him into the dressing station. We laid him to rest at 9.15 p.m. the next night and his body was carried to the little cemetery (at Chapelle d'Armentières) about three-quarters of a mile behind the trenches by four of his old comrades in the same section and platoon as he was before he went to the Brigade Pioneers; his body being covered with the Union Jack.... As his platoon officer I had a very high opinion of him, for he was a most useful man all-round. It was because of this that he was transferred to the Brigade Pioneers, where he continued to do excellent work." His brother, Private George Swan, was killed in action at the same place, 18 Oct. 1914 (see previous notice). [Illustration: =James Blair Swan.=] =SWAN, THOMAS GEORGE=, Private, No. 3317, 1/3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of Thomas Swan, Crimean Veteran; _b._ Athlone, 18 April, 1877; educ. Bells School, Leith; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 11 Dec. 1895; served through the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's medal with clasps); obtained his discharge, 10 Dec. 1902, and joined the Reserve, completing his 16 years of service in 1911. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted in his old regt., 19 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 April, 1915. He _m._ at St. Thomas' Church, Leith, 27 Dec. 1907, Annie (3/2, Corporation Buildings, Leith), dau. of (--) Ferguson, and had five children: Thomas George, _b._ 6 March, 1911; Robert, _b._ 27 June, 1914; Mary, _b._ 6 Oct. 1906; Susan Jane, _b._ 31 Oct. 1908; and Janet, _b._ 23 June, 1912. =SWANN, JOHN DAVID LIVERMORE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9885), 220674, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SWANN, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7964), 292930, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SWANN, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109372, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =SWEETING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14608, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =SWEETMAN, JOHN STANLEY=, Capt., Toronto Home Guards, Canadian Militia, 3rd _s._ of Edward Sweetman, late of Ryde, I.W., Brewer, by his wife, Emily (42, Priory Road, Hampstead, N.W.), dau. of the late William Godden, of East Street, Southampton; _b._ Ryde, 28 July, 1890; educ. Hyde Upper Grade School; was an Accountant in the Bloor Bathurst Street Branch of the Home Bank of Canada; joined the Toronto Home Guards after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and died in the General Hospital, Toronto, 12 Oct. 1914, from cerebral-spinal meningitis, contracted while undergoing a course of training; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Stanley Sweetman.=] =SWEETSUR, JAMES HENRY=, Private, No. 1891, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Edward J. Sweetsur, of 58, Grove Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 22 March, 1915. =SWETENHAM, EDMUND=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., only child of Clement William Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, Congleton, co. Chester, late Lieut., R.N., by his wife, Louisa, yst. dau. of Ralph Creyke, of Rawcliffe and Marton Hall, Yorkshire; _b._ Somerford Booths aforesaid, 30 April, 1890; educ. Eastman's Royal Naval Academy; Army School, Stratford-on-Avon, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., 20 April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1914; went to the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches at Rue du Bois, near Armentières, 27 Oct. following; _unm._ Buried there. [Illustration: =Edmund Swetenham.=] =SWIFT, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 21026, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Ypres, 11 June, 1915. =SWIFT, PETER=, Private, No. 9/1834, 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 April, 1915; _m._ =SYMES, HAROLD=, Driver, No. 2499, 1st Battery Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Alfred Symes, of 48, East Street, Littlehampton, co. Sussex, Stonemason, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William Luxford, of Pulborough; _b._ Littlehampton, 2 June, 1896; educ. there; was a Butcher's Assistant; enlisted 4 Oct. 1915, and was accidentally drowned at High Wycombe, 3 Dec. 1915, while in training there; _unm._ =SYMES, JOHN BORKWOOD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26728 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SYMMANS, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 6749, B. 952, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SYMMS, CHARLES FULLERTON=, Telegraphist, J. 3596, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SYMONDS, ALBERT HENRY=, A |