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Trooper JOHN TOVELL SWAIN

Service Number: B/148774
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment, R.C.A.C.

"A" Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1945

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

III. D. 12.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of John and Myrtle Florence Swain, of Toronto, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription MAY YOU WAKEN, JACK, TO A NEW DAWN FIRED WITH SUN, NOT WAR. EVER IN OUR MEMORIES
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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