SWAN, Reginald Ernest
| Service Number: | 3704 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morpeth, New South Wales Australia, 18 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | West Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | West Maitland, New South Wales Australia, 4 August 1957, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-34. 57. |
| Memorials: | Junction Soldier's Memorial, Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Apr 1914: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3704, 56th Infantry Battalion | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3704, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 3704, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 7 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3704, 13th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD - medically unfit, illness |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
64 years ago today, on the 6th August 1957, Private Reginald Ernest Twining Swan, 13th Battalion (Reg No-3704), bank clerk from C/O Messrs. Swan, Murray & Hain, West Maitland, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 64. GENERAL-34. 57.
Born at Morpeth, New South Wales on the 18th June 1893 to Earnest Twining and Alice Marion Rose Swan of “Ilala", Helen Street, Merewether, New South Wales (ANGLICAN 2-113. 78.); husband of Laura I Swan nee Bridge (married 1921, West Maitland, N.S.W., died?), Reg enlisted June 1917 with the 56th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 4.6.1918 (myalgia), 14.6.1918 (trench and rheumatic fever), Reg was invalided home with chronic arthritis December 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 7th March 1919.
Mr. Swan’s name has been inscribed on the Junction Soldiers' Memorial, Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates (photos, unveiled on the 12th March 1921, 322 names originally inscribed, 335 names now inscribed, 44 Fallen) and the Merewether St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour.
Reginald’s headstone inscription gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for King and Country.
Younger brother Herbert (Bert) Lancelot (18th Battalion, Reg No-5881, born 1898, Morpeth, N.S.W., died 1980, district unknown) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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