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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALBERT SWALLOW

Service Number: 2612729
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1940

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

British Plot. Grave 66.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William B. and Ada Swallow; husband of Lily Selina Sarah Esther Swallow, of Malden, Essex. His brother James David also fell.
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Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 100
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