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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : White House Cemetery CWGC -
- Charles Douglas Downs Swain -

Location

In White House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : I. B. 26.
Headstone


 
Inscription

LIEUTENANT
C.D.D. SWAIN
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
29TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGED 25

R.I.P.




Further Information

Charles Douglas Downs Swain

Son of Charles Sanchez de P. Swain and Rose Swain (née Downs) of Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Born : 1893, Demerara, British Guiana.

Census information

1901 Charles and Rose Swain, with their son [Charles] Douglas, aged 8 are at 21, Waverley Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Charles Swain is a retired Captain (Colonial Forces).

1911 Charles and Rose Swain, with their son Charles, aged 18 are at 22, Marion Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Charles Swain snr is a retired Captain (Colonial Forces); Charles Swain jnr is a Lieutenant, R.F.A.(T).

CWGC record ...
 
Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

County War Memorial, Carisbrooke Castle
Ryde Borough War Memorial WW I
Ryde All Saints Church War Memorial


 
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