Joseph Swaine

Rank: Private

Regiment: 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

Parents: Mr Frederick & Mrs Rose Swaine

Address: Beaconsfield Road, Hastings

Other Info: Member of the Blacklands Church Lads’ Brigade. Now at Dover Castle learning to be good soldiers. In the preliminary training they found the work they had done in the C.L.B. of the utmost value. According to CWGC, Joseph died aged 19 on 28th March 1915. He is remembered at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, grave reference XXVIII.B.29. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War Website.

Published: October 1914 & April 1915

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