Blair Swannell, Saint, Lion and Anzac

5 September 2023 MKHA Webmaster MKHA member events, Speaker meetings 0

Australian officers of the 1st Battalion: Captain Albert Mcguire. Major Blair Swannell and Lieutenant Alfred Shout. All three were killed at Gallipoli.

Yardley Gobion History Group

Thursday, 5th October 2023 at 8.00 pm
Yardley Gobion Village Hall, Chestnut Road, Yardley Gobion, Towcester NN12 7TW

Graham McKechnie will talk about Blair Swannell, an international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Northampton, and internationally for the British Isles and later Australia. He took part in the landing at Anzac Cove, during the first day of the Gallipoli Campaign.

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