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Corporal JOHN SWAINSTON

Service Number: 701212
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essential Services Protection Corps, S.A. Forces

Date of Death

Died 17 October 1943

Age 64 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY

English Church Sec. Grave 300.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of John and Elizabeth Swainston; husband of Rhoda A. Swainston.
  • Personal Inscription DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE FOR THE COUNTRY HE LOVED
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Buried or commemorated at

JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY
Gauteng South Africa
Number of casualties: 646
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