The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R Swingwood


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Private Reginald SWINGWOOD, G/28566, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly M/334188, RASC, MT.), died of wounds, Flanders France, 25th March 1918, age 19.

Born Richmond, Surrey, son of John and Florence Swingwood, of 4, Salisbury Road, Richmond, Surrey.


1911 Census - 4, Salisbury Road, Richmond, Surrey - John Swingwood, head, age 48, married, electric engine driver, stationary, worker, born Richmond, Surrey; Florence Rosetta Swingwood, wife, age 41, married 20 years 4 children, all still alive, born Bedford, Bedfordshire; Grace Dorothy Swingwood, daughter, age 18, single, electic lamp maker, worker, born Richmond, Surrey; John William Swingwood, son, age 16, single, bottle washer, worker, born Richmond, Surrey; Daisey Florence Swingwood, daughter, age 14, drapers apprentice, worker, born Richmond, Surrey; Richard Thomas Swingwood, age 11, schoolboy, born Richmond, Surrey;

Puckeridge George, visitor, age 60, married, vocalist, born Clerkenwell, London; Puckeridge Elsie, visitor, age 40, married 15 years, no children, vocalist, born Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

NOTE: all four children are listed, and it appears that Richard Thomas Swingwood, used the name Reginald Swingwood


Enlisted Grove Park, Kent.

Buried at Vauxbuin French National Cemetery, III. B. 1., France.


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