1919 ABSENT VOTERS LIST - PRESTON
SWARBRICKS - FURTHER DETAILS:
SWARBRICK, William Edward 34323 Medal Index Card: Swarbrick William E., M.G.C., Sergeant, 34323 Victory medal British medal Information from Service Record Papers Short Service Attestation 34323 Swarbrick William Edward M.G.C. 127, Norris Street, Preston Age: 24 years 21 days Trade: Weaver Married: No Previous Service: 2/4 Loyal North Lancs. T. F. 3479 Date of Discharge 3/5/16 Dated 4th May 1916 Height: 5 feet 9 inches Chest 38 inches Expansion 3 inches Next of Kin: Father - George, Mother – Sarah Ellen, sister – Agnes Signed for Foreign Service at Herne Bay on 8th August 1915 Statement of Services of 3479 Wm Ed Swarbrick Stamped 30th December 1914 Loyal North Lancs. Regiment Embodied Service Private 30th December 1914 – 24th June 1915 Depot 4th Battalion 42nd Prov. Bn. Transferred to Private 25th June 1915 – 7th September 1915 2/4th Bn Loyal North Lancs. Regiment Transferred to Private 8th September 1915 – 4th May 1916 M.G.C. Transferred to Private 5th May 1916 Total service towards engagement in the Territorial Force to 4th May 1916 [date of discharge] 1 year 129 days Station: Preston Statement of Services of 34323 Swarbrick Service reckons from: 29th December 1914 Joined at Grantham on 4th May 1916 M.G.C. Posted Private 4th May 1916 M.G.C. 2 Group Transfer Private 8th August 1916 M.G.C. B.E.F. France Posted Private 12th August 1916 M.G.C. BD Posted Private 13th August 1916 M.G.C. 18th Company Posted Private 1st September 1916 M.G.C. BD Posted Private 19th October 1916 M.G.C. No. 1 Company R.D. Posted Private 31st October 1916 M.G.C. 188 Company B.E.F. France Private 25th April 1917 M.G.C. 188 Company Appointed [paid] A/Corporal 4th December 1917 Bn 63 Appointed A/Corporal 23rd January 1918 To receive pay and allowances 29th January 1918 63 Battalion Promoted A/Sergeant 15th March 1918 Home Posted Sergeant 24th November 1918 Home 4th May 1916 – 11th August 1916 France 12th August 1916 – 30th October 1916 Home 31st October 1916 – 24th April 1917 France 25th April 1917 – 23rd November 1918 Home 26th November 1918 Army Form W3016 Regimental Number: 34323 Rank and Name: Pte Swarbrick W E Regiment or Corps: 18460 M Gun Corps Has been granted furlough from 21st December 1916 to 30th December 1916 His address on leave will be: 127, Norris Street, Preston Signed by the Commandant Convalescent Hospital Eastbourne Protection Certificate dated 27th March 1919 [Dispersal Leicester] Swarbrick William Edward 34323 Sergeant 63rd Battalion M.G.C. Address for pay: 127, Norris Street Preston Theatre of War: 3 Born in the year 1891 Character: sober, reliable, intelligent GSW to right shoulder – 30% disability – attributed to War Service Pension of 9/9 per week from 25th April 1919 to be reviewed in 26 weeks Discharged on 24th April 1919 aged 27 years, single man – to Class Z William Edward Swarbrick was born on 10th April 1891 at Broughton, the fifth child of fourteen born to George Roskell and Sarah Eleanor [Pomfret] Swarbrick. He was baptised on 17th May 1891 at St John's Church, Broughton. In 1911 he was living with his parents at 127, Norris Street Preston and working as a weaver in a cotton mill. In 1924 Mrs Swarbrick of 127, Norris Street, Preston, was listed as one of the contributors to the fund for the Preston War Memorial. William Edward Swarbrick died in Preston and was buried at Preston Cemetery on 24 June 1971. See also the entry for his brother Thomas |
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