247920 Pte. William Francis Sweeny British Army 48th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps William Sweeny, born Athlone 1877, enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the late summer of 1917. He was sent to train at Blackpool and went to France via Southampton to serve with 48th Field Ambulance. He was discharged in February 1919.
In 1911 he had been living at 68 Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road and was a public house manager. When he signed up his mother was then living at St Monica's, Belvedere Place, Dublin. She had been a widow since the 1880s and her only other child, a daughter, had died of scarlatina at the age of eight. At least as late as 1901 she was listed as a publican and was still running her husband's business in Church Street, Athlone. His brother, Joseph, had a shop in Mardyke Street. William Francis Sweeny died in Kensington in 1934, aged fifty-seven.
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