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Military service
Age:
35
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Birth:
September 1, 1881
Springfield, Cupar, Fife, Scotland
Enlistment:
November 16, 1914
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
February 14, 1917
Souchez, France
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Son of William and the late Isabella of Belmore Cottage, Cupar. Lieutenant Swinton was the brother of James, William and Janet. John served his apprenticeship as a draper, with Mr. Andrew Russell, Bonnygate, Cupar. Thereafter he went to London and worked for some years in a big drapery store. Emigrating to Canada, he stettled in Calgary, Alberta, where he worked in the same store as the son of his former employer in Cupar and for which he became a traveller. Finally, he went into real estate and had a most successful career, which ended with the outbreak of the War in August 1914. On enlistment he gave his trade as broker and stated he was single. He sailed overseas on the S.S. Carpathia and arrived at Shorncliffe Station, England on 29 May 1915.
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Lieutenant John Swinton
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Lieutenant John Swinton
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Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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