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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Glasgow
• Land Scotland
• Last residence Trout Lake, British Columbia
• Family Son of James Harken Sweeney and Kathleen Morris Sweeney
• Profession Purser
• Extra info Husband of Mary Smithers, of Kaslo, British Columbia.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 7 October 1915, Vernon, British Columbia
• Service number 464373
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 54th Bn. Central Ontario (Kootenay) Regiment
• Other data related to military career 2 years and 3 months prior military service with 1st Lanark Rifles, Glasgow, Scotland; also served with the 62nd Bn.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the chest, n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 30
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - D - 6A

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