The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Richard Sealy Swan), good very fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Richard Sealy Swan was born in Rathmines, Dublin and was educated at the High School, Dublin. Prior to the war he was a Clerk in the Secretary’s Office at the Bank of Ireland. Enlisting in the the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 9 August 1915 and saw service at Gallipoli. Swan died of typhoid fever in Salonika on 15 August 1916, aged 41 years, while serving with the 7th Battalion and was buried in the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece; sold with obituary cuttings, photographs of his house, copied and other research.