1919 ABSENT VOTERS LIST - PRESTON
SWARBRICKS - FURTHER DETAILS:
SWARBRICK, James 681145 Medal Index Card: Swarbrick James, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner Acting Bombardier, 681145 2A Reserve Brigade SWB List RA/4867 [No other medal entitlement recorded] Extract from WO 329/2981 681145 Gunner A/Bombardier Swarbrick, James Discharged from: 2A Reserve Brigade Badge number: 492849 Enlisted: 14th September 1915 Discharged: 8th April 1919 Sick – Para 392 xvi a Had not served overseas Information from Pension Record: Pensioner’s Record Card Swarbrick Jas Bombardier RFA 681145 Year of birth 1898 [sic] Date of enlistment 14th September 1915 Examined 14th September 1915 – passed A1 Enlisted 14th September 1915 at Preston Declared age: 19 years 28 days Trade: clerk Height 5 feet 5 inches Joined on enlistment: 3/2 West Lancashire Brigade RFA Transferred to 394 Battery RFA 681145 Invaliding disability – D. A. H. [Disordered Action of the Heart] Date of origin: 1917 Cause of disability: Act Service Condition Degree of disablement: 20% Date of discharge: 8th April 1919 Medical report dated 10th March 1919 D. A. H. 7 rs [?] Attrib 7 rs 20% Complains of shortness of breath & sciatica – dizziness General condition – fair not [illegible word] Teeth and tongue – good James Swarbrick was born on the 25th April 1898 in Preston, the fifth of five children born to James and Sarah [Long] Swarbrick. In the 1911 census that James Swarbrick was living with his widowed mother, his sister Margaret and brother George at 39, Connaught Road, Preston. James was still at school at that date. George Swarbrick died in 1912 [an older brother, Richard, had died in 1889]; Ernest Swarbrick, another brother, is thought to have served with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. |
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