1919 ABSENT VOTERS LIST - PRESTON
SWARBRICKS - FURTHER DETAILS:
SWARBRICK, James 431605 Short Service Attestation [No medal card as this man did not serve overseas] 20406 James Swarbrick Loyal North Lancs Regiment [Number crossed through - replaced by 431605] Across the top of this document: Home Service - Specially enlisted clerk WO Letter 35/Gen/No.1430 KR 25th February 1915 Name: James Swarbrick Address: 115, North Road, Preston, Lancashire British Subject? Yes Age: 37 years 8 months [This would give a birth date of July 1877] Trade: Clerk Signed and attested 6th March 1915 at Preston Descriptive Report on Enlistment James [John crossed out] Swarbrick Apparent age 37 years 8 months Height 5 feet 9 ½ inches Chest - expanded 36 inches Name and address of next of kin: Hannah Swarbrick -115, North Road, Preston, Lancashire - wife Particulars as to marriage: Hannah Almond, spinster Married 12th August 1912 at Preston Present address: 115, North Road, Preston, Lancashire Verified by certificate Children: James Bernard Swarbrick born 4th March 1916 at Preston Statement of the Services Service towards limited engagement reckons from 6.3.15 LNL Depot - Attested and Posted - Private - 6.3.15 Promoted Cpl Labour Corps - 524 Company - Transferred - Private - 29.9.17 Class Z - unpaid A/Sgt - 1.4.20 Memorandum From Colonel i/c Labour Corps Records To O/C Depot. Loyal North Lancs, Preston Nottingham 12/7/17 431605 Pte J Swarbrick Kindly note that the above man joined this office for duty as clerk on the 9th inst. W Collins Typed Document dated 8.8.17 The Regimental Paymaster - No.2 - Preston Herewith Army Form 0.1794.A for 431605 Private Swarbrick, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a specially enlisted clerk for record office. I attach a copy of the War Office Authority authorising the issue of Separation Allowance. [Authority also covers 20791 - Walker] A further document is to the effect that when James and Private Walker were transferred to Nottingham in 1917 they were initially unable to find accommodation and were entitled to and paid a separation allowance. A third document states that the allowance was to be paid for one month. A further document, dated 8th August 1917, asks that should these two men cease to be separated from their wives then the WO should be informed [presumably to sanction the cancelling of the allowance.] Casualty Form Loyal North Lancs Regiment Swarbrick James 20406 [crossed through] 431605 Age on enlistment: 37 years 8 months Enlisted 6th March 1915 Occupation: Clerk Group 37 - Married - Code no.172 Depot Loyal North Lancs Regiment From Loyal North Lancs - posted - private - 6th March 1915 From Labour Corps 524 Company - promoted corporal - 6th March 1915 [Compulsorily transferred] - 29th September 1917 From 524th H.S. Emp. Company - posted to 563 H.S. Emp. Company - 14th January 1918 - Derby MEMORANDUM 12th September 1918 From: Infantry Records To: O/C Labour Corps Records, Nottingham The attached attestation of 431605 A/Cpl Swarbrick J is returned for completion as follows: [1] Promotion to Corporal no date or information is given: should this read Appointed Acting Corporal, paid or unpaid, or local corporal [2] As acting rank was retained on transfer entry should be amended accordingly [3] The rank on transfer to 524 H.S. Employment Company is not clear. Please adjust and return at the earliest possible moment Date stamped received 13th September 1918 Infantry records No 3 District Memo - Date Stamped 20th September 1918 431605 Swarbrick J I have no trace of this man having held the rank of Cpl or A/Cpl whilst serving in the Labour Corps. He was taken on the strength of the 524th HS Emp Coy as a Private. Illegible signature - Major - For Col i/c Labour Corps Records MEMORANDUM Date: 14th December 1919 From: No 1 Infantry records, Preston To: O/C Labour Corps Records, 32, Carrington Street, Nottingham 51440 Sergeant J. Swarbrick East Lancs Regiment [Late 20406 Loyal North Lancs, 431605 Labour Corps - attached for duty at this office] The above named N.C.O. was attached for duty at your office from July 1917 to January 1918 & was appointed A/Cpl [unpaid] vide your office order dated 12th September 1917. It appears that this appointment was not promulgated in Part II orders of the Loyal North Lancs Regiment [Depot] at the time. Therefore I would be glad if you will favour me with a certified true extract of the particulars re: this appointment & order that this attestation may be put in order, M. D. King From Officer i/c Labour Corps Records, Nottingham To: Officer in charge - Lancashire Fus: Section 1 Infantry Records, Preston Re: 51440 Sgt J. Swarbrick East Lancs Regmt Reference attached correspondence, relative to the above mentioned NCO. I forward herewith certified true extract from this Office Order dated 12-9-17 confirming his appointment to the rank of A/Cpl [unpaid] W Collins Major Nottingham 19.12.19 Extract from Office Orders by Lt Colonel R F Formby Colonel i/c Labour Corps Records, Nottingham September 12th 1917 No 8. The following appointments have been approved with effect from this date No. 20406 Private Swarbrick J To be Acting Corporal [unpaid] W P Collins. Captain Certified True Copy [Date stamped 20th December 1919 Fulwood Barracks] Declaration to be made by a Soldier volunteering for Retention in the Armies of Occupation under the conditions of Army Order 55 of 1919 Whereas it is stated in Paragraph 4 of Army Order 55 of 1919 that Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and men who are qualified for demobilisation under paragraph 3 of the said Army Order, may be permitted to volunteer for the Armies of Occupation, I, 51440, A/Sergt James Swarbrick at present serving in [Corps] Depot East Lancs Regiment attached to No 1 Infantry Record Office, No 3 District, Preston, do hereby declare my willingness to surrender all claims to be demobilized and express my desire to continue serving under the same conditions as soldiers retained for service with the Armies of Occupation. If accepted as a volunteer I understand that I may be called upon to serve in any corps or arm of the Service and in any of the Armies of Occupation as defined in Paragraph 1 of the Army Order, that I may be required to relinquish any acting rank, and that I may be detained and my service prolonged for such further period not exceeding one year from the date on which this my offer is accepted as other soldiers detained for service with the Armies of Occupation. Signed James Swarbrick Dated 11th April 1919 at Preston I accept the above named soldier in Armies of Occupation C. David Lt Col 14.4.19 at Preston Statement as to Disability East Lancs Regiment Depot East Lancs Regiment 51440 Sgt Swarbrick James Permanent address: 115, North Road, Preston, Lancashire Age last birthday 42 First joined: 10.3.15 at Preston Medical Category: B II I do not claim etc. Signed J. Swarbrick Preston - 25th February 1920 Transfer Statement of Clothing and Necessaries Rank and Name: 51440 Pte Swarbrick J Proceeding from the "B" Coy Depot East Lancashire to Dispersal Date of enlistment 6.2.15 Medical category B II Date of transfer 1.3.20 Station Preston - 26.2.20 Protection Certificate Swarbrick James - 51440 Rank: illegible Unit: East Lancs Regiment Address for pay: 115, North Road, Preston, Lancashire Born in year 1877 Date stamped - London - 5th March 1920 James Swarbrick was born in Preston in July 1877 the eldest child of seven born to George and Jane [Cooper] Swarbrick. In 1901 James was living with his parents at 232, New Hall Lane, Preston and working as a tobacconist on his own account On 12th August 1912 he married Hannah Almond in Preston. By 1913 he had switched occupations and was working as a clerk. The couple's first child, James Bernard Swarbrick, was born in 1916. After he was demobilized in 1920, James continued to work as a clerk and was recorded as such in Barrett's Preston Directory in 1922, still living at 115, North Road. James died in 1959 at Preston. See also the entries for his brothers, George Henry and Charles Peter. |
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