De Ruvigny Roll of Honour Vol. 1 page 344
Berwick Advertiser Friday 13th August 1915
Berwick Advertiser Friday 20th August 1915
Andrew Campbell Swan was born 5th July 1896, at Reston. He was the eldest son of Walter Johnstone Swan, of Reston, Berwick, Tailor and Clothier, and his wife Mary Rose, daughter of William Rose of Duns.
Andrew was educated at the Reston Public School at Reston, and volunteered and enlisted on the 23rd November 1914.
The Following is an extract from the 1/4th King's Own Scottish Borderers Diary:-
"The 1/4th Battalion moved out to the railway station and entrained for Liverpool. On the 23rd May the battalion embarked on the "Empress of Britain". On June the 4th the Battalion disembarked and entrained at Aboukir, where camp was pitched on the sea shore. On June the 9th the Battalion entrained for Alexandria, and left two days later on board the "Empress of Britain" for Mudros Bay, off the coast of Lemnos, and while lying at anchor the ship was bombed from a Turkish aeroplane.
On June 13th the Battalion was packed into two small steamers and proceeded direct to the Gallipoli Peninsula situated about 60 miles away. The Battalion disembarked in the grey dawn of the following morning at the south point of the Peninsula, the famous "River Clyde" being used as a gangway, and marched one and a half miles to the bivouac of the 155th Brigade. The Battalion received its baptism of fire on route, but suffered no casualties. No intimation of the arrival of the Battalion had been sent, and as tools were totally insufficient in numbers, only one company could be dug in that day, the remainder occupying dug-outs of the rest of the Brigade.
On June the 22nd the Battalion moved up into the trenches for a spell of 5 days. Casualties so far 50."
He left for the Dardanelles on the 25th May 1915. Andrew died on the hospital ship "Asturias" on the 13th July from wounds received the previous day. He was unmarried.
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