1919 ABSENT VOTERS LIST - PRESTON
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SWARBRICK, James 641462 Medal Index Card: Swarbrick James, Loyal North Lancs. Regiment, Private, 243674 Labour Corps 641462 Victory medal British medal [Medals have Labour Corps reference] Service Record Short Service Attestation Name: James Swarbrick Address: 4, Clara Street, Preston Age 33 years 9 months Trade: Teamster Married: Yes Attested at Walton 10th December 1915 Approved 24th July 1916 Descriptive Report on Enlistment James Swarbrick Aged 33 years 9 months Height 5 feet 5 inches Chest, expanded 35 ˝ inches Next of Kin: Mary Ann Swarbrick - wife - 4, Clara Street, Preston Particulars as to Marriage Mary Ann Drinkall, spinster Goosnargh Church July 9th 1910 Children: Eveline born 18th December 1911 at Preston Hilda born 10th November 1913 at Preston Military History Sheet Home: 24.7.1916 - 9.2.1917 France 10.2.1917 - 9.6.1917 Home 10.6.1917 Wounded: 3.6.1917 Casualty Active Service Sheet Pte Swarbrick J Enlisted 27.7.16 for Duration of War - Service reckons from 24.7.16 Occupation card dispatched 12/11/17 [Motor Driver] Embarked Folkstone 9.2.17 Disembarked Boulogne 9.2.17 From 25 Infantry Base Depot - Joined - Etaples 10.2.17 Posted to 1/4th Battalion Loyal North Lancs Regmt under Army Order 204 & AC Ins 2414 of 1916 - 12.2.17 Posted to 1/5th Battalion Loyal North Lancs Regmt under A O 204 of 1916 - in the field - 3.3.17 Allotted Regimental number: 243674 6.4.17 - from O/C Unit - Joined - in the field - 1.4.17 Casualty Active Service Sheet 3.6.17 - from 2/1 WLFA West Lancs Field Ambulance?] - Admitted to Duty - Sudamine - in the field - 1.6.17 8.6.17 - from OC Unit - Wounded in action - in the field - 3.6.17 9.6.17 - from 2/1/ Wessex F A [Field Ambulance] - SW Arm L [shot wound arm left] - in the field - 4.6.17 11.6.17 - from 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station - admitted SW arm L - in the field - 4.6.17 5.6.17 - from 7 Canadian General Hospital - admitted SW L arm - Etaples - 5.6.17 9.6.17 - from 7 Canadian General Hospital - to England per "Esseouibo" - Etaples - 9.6.17 Transferred to 3rd Battalion Loyal North Lancs Felixstowe under authority 2/98203/1a - 30.12.17 Folkstone 11.2.18 Boulogne 11.2.18 Joined 25 Infantry Base Depot and posted to 9 L N Lancs for Record Purposes Joined 9th Battalion Loyal North Lancs - in the field - 18.2.18 Posted to 9th Battalion Loyal North Lancs - in the field - 12.3.18 Wounded in action - in the field - 22.3.18 From 77 Field Ambulance - GSW Leg R - in the field - 22.3.18 Illegible entry at bottom of page Admissions to Hospital From: Oswestery? Admitted 15/10/1917 - Gun shot wound - upper arm left - Bones appear normal and there is no [illegible - infection?] seen. From: Illegible Vicarage Hospital, 1st Western General Hospital Fazackerley, Liverpool - admitted 30.3.1918 - Discharged 18.5.1918 Contusion - right leg - Result of being buried owing to shell burst. Discharged for [illegible] Command Depot for massage & exercise. From: Blank - Admitted 1.6.1918 - Discharged 18.6.1918 Shell shock - Complains of pain and swelling in calves of legs. Nil abnormal found - Discharged II Command Depot Casualty Active Service Sheet 19.6.18 - from O/C Heaton Park - Arrived, taken on strength & posted to "J" Company - Command Depot Heaton Park - 18.6.18 From O/C Heaton Park - Posted to 3rd Battalion Loyal North Lancs Regmt. - Felixstowe - 22.6.18 9.8.18 - Posted to 541 Agricultural Company by Preston pending transfer to Labour Corps - Authority E C of 35263 [DL] - 3.8.18 - 3rd Battalion LNL Conduct sheet has 243674 - 5 LNL on top Certified no entry Officer i/c 541 Agricultural Company, Labour Corps Medical sheet 243674 Swarbrick James Joined on enlistment: 5th Battalion Loyal North Lancs. Other conduct sheet gives 3rd Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment - again no entries. Statement as to Disability 541 Agricultural Company, Labour Corps 641462 Swarbrick James Address: 4, Clara Street, Preston Age last birthday: 40 First joined for duty: 10.11.15 at Preston Medical category when joined: A1 Place of examination: Preston 21.1.1919 Date stamped Nottingham - Labour Corps Records - 20.1.1919 Protection Certificate Swarbrick James 641462 Private 541 Agricultural Company Address for pay: 4, Clara Street, Preston Born 1882 Date Stamped - Heaton Park Dispersal 20.1.1919 Post Card acknowledging receipt of Victory and War Medals - dated 23rd February 1922 Extract from the 1919 Absent Voters’ List for Preston: 4, Clara Street No. 11451 – Swarbrick James 641462 Pte 501st Labour Coy James Swarbrick was born in April 1881 in Preston the eight child of ten children born to Robert and Ann [Grimshaw] Swarbrick. He was baptised at St Luke's Church, Preston on 1st May 1881. In 1901 he and his brother Harry were working as farm labourers in Broughton. He married Mary Ann Drinkall on 9th July 1910 at the Parish Church, Goosnargh. In 1911 he and Mary Ann were living at 4, Clara Street, Preston and James was working as a carter. James Swarbrick was listed in 1924 as one of the contributors to the fund for the Preston War Memorial. His address at that time was 4, Clara Street, Preston. James died aged 81 years and was buried on 16 August 1962 at Preston Cemetery. |
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