SWANN E.
Ernest Swann
Private 20116
1st Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Ernest Swann died on Sunday 9 May 1915, Age 43, and commemorated at PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.
He was the husband of Eliza Ann Swann, of 76 Alfreton Road., Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press, 9th May 1919
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
ERNEST SWANN. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 1st Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 20116, Killed in Action France & Flanders 9th May 1915.
Researched by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes