Swaddle James Sgt 4453028 - Revision history

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{{Personnel
|id=1032
|Surname and forenames=Swaddle James
|Army number=4453028
|Rank=Sgt
|Age=0
|Unit=DLI, 1 TS 1/2/40
|Home address=38, Weather Grove, Old Fold, Gateshead
|Source table=1TS
}}

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 Two Efficiency Medals, each with TERRITORIAL suspender bar, one awarded to 4453028 SGT.J.SWADDLE. RPC; the other to 4391169 PTE.J.A.VAUGHAN. GREEN HOWARDS.
-**Private Vaughan was a prisoner of war, held in Stalag XXB in East Prussia.
+**Private Vaughan was a prisoner of war, held in Stalag XXB in East Prussia (as, of course, were many men from 70th Infantry Brigade).
-Oonagh Drage, the Military Specialist at Messrs Tennants, has advised that the lot came from the estate of a deceased collector so unfortunately we have no means of identifying how Sgt SWADDLE's medal came into the collector's possession.  Sincere thanks are due to Ms Drage and to Tennants for their prompt agreement to the use of their image of this award.
+Oonagh Drage, the Military Specialist at Messrs Tennants, has advised that lot 61 came from the estate of a deceased collector, so unfortunately we have no means of identifying how Sgt SWADDLE's medal came into the collector's possession.  Sincere thanks are due to Ms Drage and to Tennants for their prompt agreement to the use of their image of this award.

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		+	The catalogue entry for Lot 61 at this specialist auction carries the following description :-
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		+	Two Efficiency Medals, each with TERRITORIAL suspender bar, one awarded to 4453028 SGT.J.SWADDLE. RPC; the other to 4391169 PTE.J.A.VAUGHAN. GREEN HOWARDS.
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		+	**Private Vaughan was a prisoner of war, held in Stalag XXB in East Prussia.
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		+	Oonagh Drage, the Military Specialist at Messrs Tennants, has advised that the lot came from the estate of a deceased collector so unfortunately we have no means of identifying how Sgt SWADDLE's medal came into the collector's possession. Sincere thanks are due to Ms Drage and to Tennants for their prompt agreement to the use of their image of this award.

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 |Army number=4453028
 |Rank=Sgt
-Decorations=Territorial Efficiency Decoration (Medal appears in lot 61 of Tennants Militaria sale of 20th January 2016).
+Decorations=Territorial Efficiency Decoration (Medal appears in lot 61 of Tennants Militaria sale of 20th January 2016 - see below).
 |Date of birth=3/5/1909 - Gateshead
 |Age=0
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 |Source table=1TS
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 |Joined Brigade=Possibly 1/9/1939, dependent on DLI Battalion posting.
 |Died/Killed in action=March 1980.
-|Home address=38, Weather Grove, Old Fold, Gateshead.  Research suggests his parents were Ralph and Jane Swaddle (to be confirmed).
+|Home address=38, Weather Grove, Old Fold, Gateshead.  Research suggests his parents were Ralph and Jane (nee Cook) Swaddle (to be confirmed) and that Sergeant Samuel Swaddle of the Battalion was his brother.
 |Source table=1TS
 }}