https://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Swannell_David_W.A._2%2FLt_74691 2026-09-11T04:54:23Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0 https://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/w/index.php?title=Swannell_David_W.A._2/Lt_74691&diff=25500&oldid=prev 2018-10-02T11:35:58Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:35, 2 October 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Personnel</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Personnel</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Surname and forenames=Swannell David <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">W.A.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Surname and forenames=Swannell David <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">William Ashburnham</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Army number=74691</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Army number=74691</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Rank=2/Lt</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Rank=2/Lt</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Date of birth=1918 Newport, Oxfordshire.  Mother's maiden surname Abraham.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Decorations=M.B.E. (Military) Gazetted 30/10/1953.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Age=0</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Age=0</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Unit=Durham Light Infantry<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted 2nd Bn Home Service Details 10/10/1939<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted 167 OCTU 21/10/1939<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted 10th Bn DLI 13/8/1940<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Iceland<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted 103 Rft Grp 6/5/1944<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted 10th Bn DLI 18/6/1944<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Trf </del>Green Howards, Posted 7th Bn<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Posted No 4 ITC 1/12/1944</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Unit=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Joined The </ins>Durham Light Infantry<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  </ins>Posted 2nd Bn Home Service Details 10/10/1939<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  </ins>Posted 167 OCTU 21/10/1939 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a Cadet.  Commissioned as a 2/Lt in The Durham Light Infantry - Gazetted 1/1/1941.  </ins>Posted 10th Bn DLI 13/8/1940<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Served </ins>Iceland<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  </ins>Posted 103 Rft Grp 6/5/1944<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  </ins>Posted 10th Bn DLI 18/6/1944<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Served Normandy.  Transferred to the </ins>Green Howards, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">probably on the disbandment of 10th Battalion DLI.  </ins>Posted 7th Bn <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Green Howards.  </ins>Posted No 4 ITC <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brancepeth </ins>1/12/1944<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Retired 17/2/1956.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Company/Battery=Bn HQ, HQ, D</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Company/Battery=Bn HQ, HQ, D<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Task or role=Acting Adj, OC, OC<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">,</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Task or role=Acting Adj, OC, OC<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Joined Brigade=13-Aug-40</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Joined Brigade=13-Aug-40<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Promotions=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">T</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Captain</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Promotions=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Captain 27/1/1946.  Major 27/1/1951.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Died/Killed in action=Died 24 July 1992 aged 74.  Death registered July 1992, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.  Probate granted Newcastle Registry 19/8</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1992.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Home address=At his death was living at 11, Cardigan Street, Newmarket, Suffolk.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Source table=10DLI</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Source table=10DLI</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>CSV import</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Personnel<br /> |Surname and forenames=Swannell David W.A.<br /> |Army number=74691<br /> |Rank=2/Lt<br /> |Age=0<br /> |Unit=Durham Light Infantry, Posted 2nd Bn Home Service Details 10/10/1939, Posted 167 OCTU 21/10/1939, Posted 10th Bn DLI 13/8/1940, Iceland, Posted 103 Rft Grp 6/5/1944, Posted 10th Bn DLI 18/6/1944, Trf Green Howards, Posted 7th Bn, Posted No 4 ITC 1/12/1944<br /> |Company/Battery=Bn HQ, HQ, D<br /> |Task or role=Acting Adj, OC, OC,<br /> |Joined Brigade=13-Aug-40<br /> |Promotions=T/Captain<br /> |Source table=10DLI<br /> }}</div>

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