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Pte. William Swann
British Army 15th Btn Royal Scots
from:Stockport, Cheshire
William Swann, known as Billy, was my Great Great Aunt's stepson. He was one of the so called Manchester Scottish, members of the 15th Battalion, Royal Scots which was raised by the Lord Provost and City with half the men being recruited in Edinburgh and half in Manchester, hence the name Manchester Scottish.
My interest in him comes from two photographs I have passed through the family welcoming him home from the war after being in a POW in Germany. My research through the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross indicates that he was captured at Croiselles, France on the 23rd of March 1918 and was imprisoned at Parchim Camp in Germany. This was known as the Camp of Death possibly because of the high death rate from Spanish Flu.
William married in Annie Leah on 27th Dec 1927. I have not been able to trace any children. It was a later marriage, William was born in 1883, Annie in 1894 and both died in 1960.