1919 ABSENT VOTERS LIST - PRESTON
SWARBRICKS - FURTHER DETAILS:
SWARBRICK, Wilfred 669483 Medal Index Card: Swarbrick Wilfrid, Royal Field Artillery, Driver, 1774 Labour Corps, Private, 669483 Victory medal British medal 1915 Star SWB list LC/4689 Theatre of war: France Date of entry therein: 29th September 1915 Extract from WO 329/3201 669483 Private Swarbrick William, Labour Corps SWB badge number B1256812 Enlisted: 5th December 1914 Discharged: 24th February 1919 – wounds Discharged at Nottingham Attestation for Territorial Force [One Year at Home] 1774 [31926 written above this] Wilfrid Swarbrick 2nd West Lancs. Brigade R.F.A. [Over-stamped Labour Corps] Born: Preston Age: 19 years 7 months Trade: Tailor Have you ever been rejected or discharged? Yes, Loyal North Lancs [T] Attested and certified 5th December 1914 at Preston Signed agreement to serve overseas at same place and date. Description on Enlistment Apparent age: 19 years 7 months Height 5 feet 7 inches Chest 34 ˝ inches Expansion 2 inches Complexion fresh Eyes grey Hair brown Roman Catholic Statement of the Services of 1774 Wilfrid Swarbrick Service towards limited engagement reckons from 5th December 1914 Joined at Preston on 5th December 1914 2nd West Lancs. Brigade R.F.A. – Embodied service – gunner 5th December 1914 From 278th Brigade R.F.A. – Posted 28th May 1916 From C/276 Bde – posted – Driver – date illegible Clearing Office 2nd September 1917 18th September 1918 from 261 C [2 Reserve Brigade] – posted – driver – 16th September 1918 From Labour Corps – Transferred compulsory permanent – driver – 17th October 1918 From W.C.L.C.* Oswestery – authority tank III AFW 5010 completed 17th October 1918 Pay of new service under para 2 of Acs 2084/16 * Western Command Labour Centre King’s Certificate 5050 Silver Badge Disembodied 24th February 1919 Military History Sheet Home 5th December 1914 to 28th September 1915 France 29th September 1915 to 1st September 1917 Home 2nd September 1917 [Next to the section: Wounded there has clearly been an entry, now almost completely washed out and unreadable, presumably relating to the GSWs referred to below. The only legible part is a date - 27/8/17 which may well have been the date on which Wilfrid was injured. As he returned to the UK from France on 1st September 1917 it is reasonably safe to assume that he was sent back from the front having been wounded, a process which would have taken place between the 27th August and the 1st September 1917. After he recovered he would have been transferred to the Labour Corps.] Injuries in or by the Service: Abrasion foot [R] Next of Kin: Annie Bashall [mother] 15, Holstein Street, Preston Demobilisation No. 3 Company W.C.L.C. Swarbrick W 669483 Single Age: 22 Service dates from: 20th November 1914 Labour Corps Record Office Nottingham 30th MINISTRY OF PENSIONS BURTON COURT KING’S ROAD LONDON SW3 7th March 1919 Sir, I am directed by the Minister of Pensions to inform you of the undermentioned decision in the case of a man whose discharge documents have been recently received with the view to having the claim to pension considered. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant William Sanger Controller, Soldiers’ Awards Branch To the Officer commanding Labour Corps Regiment Private Swarbrick, Wilfrid 669483 Labour Corps [W.C.L.C.] late R.F.A. Disembodied 24th February 1919 Age on disembodied 22 Marital status: single Address: 5, Holstein Street, Preston GSW Left shoulder – attributable GSW Right hip & buttock - attributable Degree of disablement 20% Weekly pension 5/6 per week from 25th February 1919 to be reviewed in 52 weeks COOPER’S BUILDINGS, CHURCH ST. [POLE ST. CORNER] PRESTON Telephone 138x June 20TH 1919 “Andrew McNeil” LADIES, GENTS & BOYS TAILOR THE HOUSE FOR TRUE VALUE – I, Andrew McNeil, hereby declare that Private Wilfred Swarbrick No. 669483 No. 3 Company Prees Heath near Whitchurch, Salop [W.C.L.C.] was in my employment before August 4th and that I am prepared to offer him employment as Tailors improver [illegible] immediately upon his return to civil life. Andrew McNeil Henry Leigh Henry Leigh Proprietor Wilfrid Swarbrick was born in 1896 the first of two children born to Joseph Francis and Anne [Ormerwood] Swarbrick. His father died in 1898 and in 1901 he was living with his widowed mother at her parents' house. In 1911 he was living with his mother and stepfather Richard Bashall at 5, Holstein Street, Preston and working as an apprentice tailor. |
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