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L/Cpl. John Swanston
British Army 16th Battalion, C Company Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
John Swanston died aged 37. He was born in Gateshead and was the husband of Edith Ann R. Swanston (nee Fairbank). In the 1911 Census, he is recorded as John Swanston, age 33, a Drapery Traveller, lived with his wife Edith Ann Swanston & their 2 daughters at 31, Rose Street, Hepburn-on-Tyne. He enlisted in Cramlington
John is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
