Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 01/02/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 10/04/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Seymour, Victoria
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Sydney NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Groom
- Next of Kin
- W. Scott (friend), Randwick NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 690
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 1 Machine Gun Company AIF
Notes
Swadling first enlisted in October 1914 with the 7th Light Horse Regiment but was discharged as medically unfit in August 1916 with tuberculosis. He moved to Canberra and got a job as a groom at the Royal Military College before enlisting a second time in Seymour, Victoria in May 1917. He was hospitalised with influenza after arriving in England and returned to Australia in July 1918. He did not see service on the Western Front.
Description - height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 130 pounds, chest 36-39 inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair, Presbyterian.
Sources
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
ACT Electoral Rolls - 1916