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Gen. Maj. William Travers Swan RAMC
Info from Michael Innes (grandson)
It is said that William was an accomplished historian & won many scholarships during his time at university. He used the proceeds of the scholarships to pay for his course in medicine when he qualified as a medical doctor. He joined the British army & saw service in India, South Africa. He rose up through the ranks seeing service in France during WWI & witnessed the first gas attacks by the Germans. Later he was in Palestine as General Allenby' s 2nd in command & marched immediately behind him into Jerusalem, which had been taken from the Turks.
He was a keen collector of antique military weaponry such as arquebusses, suits of armour & the like.
From: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
GB/NNAF/P156257
Swan, William Travers (1861-1949) Major GeneralScope 1912-20: diaries and corresp
Repository Imperial War Museum Department of Documents Other reference see Cook, British Political History, II, 1975Probable death: GRO
W.T. Swan, aged 87, Eastbourne 5h 273
Info from: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
Record 1266 from 'Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1845-1847'
National Archive reference number: RLFC3/2/24/
Description: Rev John Shea, vicar of Abbeyleix and secretary, enquiring if the government will financially assist the gratuitous distribution to the 3,147 destitute individuals in the area, with draft reply. Edmund Swan, secretary, enclosing subscription list for a soup kitchen and a subsequent supplemental certified subscription list.Date: 9 Dec 1846 - 26 Mar 1847
Item: 15
Drawings: 5 items
County: Queen's
Barony: Cullenagh
Comments: Abbeyleix
NOTE: A "Thomas Swan MD" was a Medical Officer in Abbeyleix in 1871. He was probaly related.
Patrick was killed in a car accident near George, in South Africa aged 18 years. He was the driver.
Patrick was killed in a car accident near George, in South Africa aged 18 years. He was the driver.