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Sergeant JOSEPH SWALES

Service Number: 1378431
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 26 June 1942

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

AMBT-DELDEN GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot IB. Row K. Coll. grave 3-5.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Lucy Hannah Swales; husband of Marjorie Swales, of Gomersal, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK" LOVING WIFE MARJORIE, DAUGHTER SHEILA AND ALL THE FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

AMBT-DELDEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 14
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