Alf++Swales

Swales, Alfred, 9067 Private, 1st Btn The King's ( Liverpool) Regiment Re-Enlisted 21/08/1914 Born ca 1884 Killinghall Yorkshire Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Husband of Martha Nee Crook, father of Ada Annie bn 1913 and Alfreda Lille bn 1915 Died 10/3/1915 ( possibly before daughter Alfeda was born) Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle at Givenchy-en-Gohelle. First of the 61 men lost from Blackwell parish. Commemorated on Le Touret Memorial France.

1911 Census Private serving with King's (Liverpool) Regiment in India. In 1891 Alfred was living in Leeds with parents and 6 siblings, Ada, John, Fred, Emily, James, and Kate.  In 1901 he was training in a Dr Barnardos home in Gateshead,


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